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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23669 |
Current Location | magazine |
Comments on Inventory | joining: Pap. Berlin P. 13573 a-b + 23669 |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication assigned |
Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Discovery | archaeological excavation Certainty: high |
Date of Discovery Term. Ante / Post Quem Non |
between 17 11 1907 and 19 11 1907 |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | Zucker, Friedrich (excavation director) Certainty: high |
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Elephantine |
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution | partage |
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution | between 1907 and 1907 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
Object Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, dark |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 295 mm | 105 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The upper (except for Pap. Berlin P. 13573a) as well as the lower part are broken off. Several horizontal breaks at the foldings. On the verso the vertical strip is detectable which was teared off for the wrapping of the entire roll. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Restoration Activities | Restaurierung abgeschlossen |
Localization of Text on Object | recto/verso | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (recto) and perpendicular (verso) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Loss of several lines. Diverse ink blots, thus ink presumably water-soluble (Zauzich). | |
Script, Primary | Late Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Roman Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige, unregelmäßige, nicht sehr deutliche spätdemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Medium line pitch. Recto: The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire sheet, with small but equal lateral margins and a broader upper one. Verso: The continuation of the recto text is placed onto the upper part of the sheet, with equal lateral and upper margins. The address was placed in the middle. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 6+x+9+x+10 | 4 (on 13573a) + 1 (on 23669) |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 104 | 104 |
Column Height (in mm) | 70 | 70 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 104 x 70 | 104 x 70 |
Modern Title | Letter concerning a journey to Philae |
Ancient Archives | private archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter of Totoes, son of Petosorsmetis, to Pmois, concerning a journey (of the sender?) to Philae. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man Woman |
Comment on Gender | - Activity of woman: beneficiary of rememberance - Identifier of woman: (currently not known XXXX) |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
1520 | man | Pa-pa-neb-taui | Pa-pꜢ-nb-tꜢ.wỉ(?) | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
9995 | man | Petesouchos (P.13573-23669) | PꜢ-ḏỉ-Sbk | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
9990 | man | Pmois | Pꜣ-mꜣy | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
10000 | woman | Tachnoumis | Ta-H̱nm | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
110 | man | Totoes, son of Petosorsmetis | Twt sꜢ PꜢ-ḏỉ-Wsỉr-ns-mtr | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Tiberius | 12 | 25 August 29 CE 26 August 28 CE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 100508 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46486 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100508 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23669), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |