Pap. Berlin P. 23595

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23595
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 2 1 1907 and 2 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)	275 mm \| 114 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The left part is broken off in undetermined extent, the right one only slightly. Several large holes in the sheet.
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)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Recto: Line beginnings slightly damaged. Line endings broken off in undetermined extent. Verso: Line beginnings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary	Early Demotic
Script, additional A	Abnormal Hieratic
Language, Primary	Early Demotic
Language, additional A	pre-Coptic Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting	"Recto: Gute frühdemotische Urkundenschrift. Verso: Relativ sorgfältiges Abnormal-Hieratisch in mehreren Händen." (Alles According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. Recto: The text was placed onto the upper half of the sheet, with broad upper margin. The lower half remains uninscribed. Verso: The text was placed onto the upper half of the sheet, with broad upper and left margins. The lower half remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	3+5
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	115	x+70
Column Height (in mm)	70	110
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	115+y x 70	x+70 x 110

Modern Title	Sales contract
Ancient Archives	administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	[///], son of Oaphres
Text Types	documentary \| contract \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Sales contract. The details are not detectable any more due to the fragmentary condition. Abnormal Hieratic witness signatures
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Abnormal Hieratic: Witness signatures
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Transcription

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1	ḥsbt 13 ı͗bd 2 šmw n pr-ꜥꜣ Wꜣḥ-ı͗b-Rꜥ ꜥnḫ ḏ.t
4	sḫy n-ı͗m=w r pꜣy=tn bnr ṯꜣy šr šr.t n-ḏr.t NN
5	sꜣ Wꜣḥ-ı͗b-Rꜥ

1	13th regnal year, Payni of pharaoh Apries, whi my live in eternity
4	having legal power over them, apart from you, wheater brother, or sister, [///. Written by NN,]
5	son of Oaphres

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RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Apries	13	Payni		-577 October 11 BCE -577 November 9 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

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Kaiser, Werner, Ägyptisches Museum Berlin: Östlicher Stülerbau am Schloss Charlottenburg (1967). (124 no. 1116)
Lüddeckens, Erich, Papyri, Demotische, Berlin (1982). (no. E24g)
Vleeming, Sven P., The Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents in A. D. 2007 (2008). (7)
Vleeming, Sven P., The Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents in A. D. 2007 – 2009 (2010). (1)
Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). (no. 222)
Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Neue demotische Papyri in Berlin (1969). (43 (23595))

DatasetID	100531
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	45723
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100531 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23595), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.