Pap. Berlin P. 23584

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23584
Current Location	magazine
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 26 1 1907 and 26 1 1907
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto (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, light
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	80 mm \| 215 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The left part is broken off at about half of the original width. Breaks along the horizonral foldings. Some minor holes in the sheet.

Localization of Text on Object	recto/verso
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	parallel (verso) and perpendicular (recto)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Line endings lost at about half of the original length. Some holes with minor text losses.
Script, Primary	Early Demotic
Script, additional A	(none)
Language, Primary	Early Demotic
Language, additional A	(none)
Comments on Handwriting	"Flüchtige frühdemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, with small upper and right margins, and a broader margin. Verso: The text was placed onto the upper half of (preserved) sheet.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	1+2
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	205	0
Column Height (in mm)	80	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	205+y x 80	0

Modern Title	letter from the Persian commander Ravaka
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Peteyris, son of Esyris
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| horizontal format
Summary of Content	Letter of the Persian fortress commander Ravaka to Eschnompmetis. The letter was written by the scribe Peteyris, son of Esyris. Two lines Aramaic before the address, In the address the name of the sender(?) is given in Aramaic: "PLNKPY (or PLNKNY, unclear noun) of Hawmayasa" (a Persian name known from Saqqara)
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Two lines Aramaic before the address, In the address the name of the sender(?) is given in Aramaic: "PLNKPY (or PLNKNY, unclear noun) of Hawmayasa" (a Persian name known from Saqqara)
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Darius I	30	Tybi	14	-492 may 6 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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DatasetID	100511
last Change	30.08.2022
Trismegistos	46582
Author	Jan Moje (Demotic); James D. Moore (Aramaic)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100511 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23584), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); James D. Moore (Aramaic).