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Pap. Berlin P. 23557

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23557
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 9 11 1907 and 10 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) 222 mm | 102 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper part as well as the lower part are broken off in undetermined extent. Some holes near the left edge from the sealing.
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. Some holes with substantial text losses at the left edge.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Geübte, relativ sorgfältige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, without lateral margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+24+y 23
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 105 105
Column Height (in mm) 225 210
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 105 x x+225+y 105 x 210

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter concerning leases of fields and delivery of wheat
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter with unclear content due the the fragmentary condition. Mention of leases of fields and of delivery of wheat.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)
Comment on Religion NAME EINTRAGEN: ȝgylws Achilleus (third party person)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_23557_R-vorlaeufig
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P_23557_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
Ptolemaios VIII Euergetes II 44 Third Month of ? -127 September 24 BCE -126 September 23 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Pictures

P_23557_R-vorlaeufig
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P_23557_V-vorlaeufig
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100553
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46564
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100553 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23557), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.