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Pap. Berlin P. 23659

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23659
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) 259 mm | 69 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. Lower right edge of the sheet and left part at the level of lines 13-14 lost. Horizontal continuous break.
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) Upper part broken off in undetermined extent. Some line beginnings and endings lost.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Relativ sorgfältige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. Recto: The text was placed onto the approximately upper three-fourth of the sheet, with small equal right margin. Line length varying. The lower fourth remains uninscribed Verso: With small equal lateral margins. Upper and lower parts remain uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+18 19
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 60 55
Column Height (in mm) 180 195
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 60 x x+180 55 x 195

 

Text Content

Modern Title account on the delivery of wine(?) and bread
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Account on the delivery of jars of wine(?) (recto) and baked bread loaves (verso).
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
BER-PI_23659_R_001
Reserved Copyright
BER-PI_23659_V_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
865 man Espmetis, son of Espneti-hetnetjer (carrier-of-Ra and lesonis) Ns-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ Ns-pꜢ-nty-(n-)ḥ.t-nṯr pre-Coptic Egyptian
1560 man Pasenis ( P. 23659) Pa-sny pre-Coptic Egyptian
1925 man Psenpelaias ( P. 23659) PꜢ-šr-pꜢ-mr-ỉḥ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

BER-PI_23659_R_001
Reserved Copyright
BER-PI_23659_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100535
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 45733
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100535 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23659), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.