Pap. Berlin P. 23555

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23555
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 12 2 1906 and 12 2 1906
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 1906 and 1906
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, light
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	115 mm \| 218 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The upper and lower right corners are broken off, one larger rectangular hole on the right side.
Mounting	framed under glass
Comments on Object	On the verso there are detectable faint traces of col. 1 l. 6-7 of the recto.

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)	Line beginnings partly broken off in the corners, one hole with text lossses. Partly faded.
Script, Primary	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Roman Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Sehr flüchtige und teilweise besonder schwierige spätdemotische Geschäftsschrift verschiedener Hände" (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Narrow line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire sheet. Both columns are right-aligned, with a broad and equal right margin. Line length varying. Verso: The text was placed onto the right half of the sheet, with a broad right margin.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	Col. I: 12; Col. II: 12+4	9+y
Quantity of Columns	2	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	205	35
Column Height (in mm)	110	90
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	205 x 110	35 x 90

Modern Title	Business contract with confirmation of correctness and lists of delivery of different items
Ancient Archives	administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary \| contract \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Business contract. Confirmation of several persons concerning the correctness of that what was written in the letter. List of names, dates and the delivery of certain items, including wine.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Roman Period				-30 BCE 211 CE	;

P_23555_Rv_R_001

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DatasetID	100524
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	45712
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100524 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23555), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.