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Pap. Berlin P. 23567

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23567
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned

Origin / Provenance

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

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 185 mm | 125 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Consists of two not joining fragments. Fragment a: 123 x 185 mm. The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. At the end of line 4 possibly the original left edge is preserved, several breaks and holes in the sheet. Fragment b: 102 x 47 mm. Only on the right side original edge perserved, several holes and horizontal breaks along the foldings.
Mounting framed under glass

Text Basic Information

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) Fragment a: Upper part broken off in undetermined extent. Possibly left edge preserved near line 4. Fragment b: Line endings broken off.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Flüchtige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift, von verschiedenen Händen." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The right-aligned text shows small lateral margins. Text blocks separtated by large space.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines a: x+2+4+2+y. b: x+3 a: 0 b: x+2
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 110 35
Column Height (in mm) 209040 20
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 11 x 20+90+40 35 x 20

 

Text Content

Modern Title collection of receipts about payment of money for wheat for sowing
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt
Summary of Content Two fragments of a larger sheet with three or four receipts about payment of money for wheat for sowing.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_23567_Rv_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_23567_Rv_V_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty 18 -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_23567_Rv_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_23567_Rv_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100526
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 45715
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100526 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23567), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.