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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23603 |
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, dark |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 354 mm | 175 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | All edges frayeds and damaged. Several minor holes in the sheet. Horizontal and vertical breaks along the foldings. Papyrus darkened due to the wiping out of the anterior text. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Comments on Object | Palimpsest. On recto and verso traces of an anterior text. One vertical continuous sheet join (kollesis) near the left edge (10 mm). |
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) | Some breaks and holes with text losses. | |
Script, Primary | Early to Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige früh- bis mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Medium line pitch. Recto: Column right-aligned, with medium right and broad left margin, small upper and broad lower margin. Verso: Column right-aligned, with broad right margin, and small upper, lower and left margins. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 22 | 30 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 90 | 65 |
Column Height (in mm) | 235 | 315 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 90 x 235 | 65 x 315 |
Modern Title | account concerning delivery of bread for the fourth phyle |
Ancient Archives | Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Account of the fourth phyle of priests concerning delivery of bread on special days On recto list of names and titles with related amounts of money, on verso list of days of month with related amounts of money. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Late period - Early Ptolemaic dynasty | 06 | Phamenoth | -664 BCE -222 BCE | ; |
DatasetID | 100532 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 45724 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100532 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23603), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |