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Pap. Berlin P. 23671

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23671
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
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non
between 30 10 1907 and 2 11 1907
Finder (= First Purchaser) Zucker, Friedrich (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

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 219 mm | 55 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper as well as the lower part are broken off in undetermined extent. Lateral edges damaged, one larger hole in the upper middle section.
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 and lower part broken off in undetermined extent. Damage to line x+5.
Script, Primary Late Demotic
Language, Primary Roman Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Flüchtige, schwer lesbare spätdemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, without lateral margins. Verso: The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, without lateral margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+22+y x+23+y
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 55 55
Column Height (in mm) 215 210
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 55 x 215 55x x 210

 

Text Content

Modern Title account on wine and money
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Account, consisting of a list of personal names, wine and amounts of money.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_23671_R-vorlaeufig
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P_23671_V-vorlaeufig
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Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

P_23671_R-vorlaeufig
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P_23671_V-vorlaeufig
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Literature

 

DatasetID 100537
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 45735
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100537 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23671), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.