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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23586 |
| 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 |
| Finder (= First Purchaser) | Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) 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 1906 and 1908 |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
| Object Type | papyrus |
| Color | papyrus, light |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 196 mm | 69 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | complete |
| State of Preservation | Upper edge slightly damaged. Some minor horizontal breaks. On the verso a small strip is teared off for the wrappig of the entire roll. |
| Mounting | framed under glass |
| 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) | complete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | Line endings in upper part of recto slightly damaged. | |
| Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | ""Flüchtige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift, auffällig breiter, klecksiger Strich." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Medium line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire sheet, with small margins on all sides. Line length varying. Verso: The text was placed onto the upper half of the sheet, with small lateral margins and a slightly broader margin. Address lines placed onto the lower section of the otherwise uninscribed part, with the second line rotated by 180° with respect to rest of the text. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 14 | 8+2 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 65 | 65 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 175 | 105 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 65 x 175 | 65 x 105 |
| Modern Title | letter containing requests on maintenance |
| Ancient Archives | private archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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| Summary of Content | Letter of Geses to Sirthotes containing an answer on request concerning maintenance. The mentioned person Hgrṱ appears also in Pap Berlin P. 13543. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 1115 | man | Herakleides (P. 13543, 23586) | Hrgrṱ | Greek, Ancient | ||
| 10725 | man | Sirthotes (Lesonis) | Sr-Ḏḥwtỉ | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic dynasty | 04 | Payni | 18 | -332 BCE -30 BCE | Dating by palaeography.; |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| P_23586_V |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| DatasetID | 100513 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 46584 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100513 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23586), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
