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Pap. Berlin P. 23691

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23691
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 2 3 1906 and 2 3 1906
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 1906 and 1906
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, dark
Size (Height | Width | Thickness)	165 mm | 94 mm | mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The lower part as well as the left part are broken off in undetermined extent. Very holey. On the recto fiber orientation slanting to the lower right.
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)	Lower part (recto and verso) broken off in undetermined extent. Line endings of second column (recto) respectively line beginnings of next to last preserved column (verso) lost.Several holes with substantial text losses. On verso partly faded.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Recto: Relativ sorgfältige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift. Verso: Flüchtige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) Verhältnis Rto zu Vso nicht sicher.
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. Text on recto with broad upper margin. Right-aligned columns with varying line length and medium distance between the columns.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	Col.I: 8+y;Col.II: 13+y	Col.I: 8+3+y; Col.II: 11+y
Quantity of Columns	4	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	85	85
Column Height (in mm)	135	160+y
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	85 x 135+y	85 x 160+y

 

Text Content

Modern Title	account regarding the expenditures for burials
Ancient Archives	administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary | account
Summary of Content	Account "for Petosiris, son of Imouthes", possibly regarding the expenditures for burials of some persons in a (collective?) tomb
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
9580	man	Petosiris, son of Imouthes	PꜢ-ḏỉ-Wsỉr sꜢ Ỉy-m-ḥtp	pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

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

 

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Literature

• Lüddeckens, Erich, Papyri, Demotische, Berlin (1982). (no. E23oo)
• Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). (no. 318)

 

DatasetID	100538
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	45737
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100538 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23691), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.