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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23560 |
| 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 |
| 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 1908 |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
| Object Type | papyrus |
| Color | papyrus, dark |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 167 mm | 79 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | complete |
| State of Preservation | Upper edge frayed. One rectangular hole at the preserved right edge at the height of lines 4 - 7. |
| Mounting | framed under glass |
| Comments on Object | Palimpsest. On recto and verso traces of an anterior text. |
| 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) | Beginnings of lines 4 - 7 broken off. | |
| Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "Relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper two-thirds of the sheet, with small lateral margins. The lower one-third remains uninscribed. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 19 | 1 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 75 | 0 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 95 | 0 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 75 x 95 | 0 |
| Modern Title | letter with the request of papyrus |
| Ancient Archives | Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Letter of Pouoptis, son of Harpaesis, to Harpaesis, son of Pouoptis (superior and father of the sender), requesting some papyrus. The addressee is known from other Elephantine texts, so Pap. Berlin P. 13535 and Ostr. Zürich 1840. |
| 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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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 1025 | man | Harpaesis, son of Pouoptis | Ḥr-pa-Ꜣs.t sꜢ PꜢ-wp.ṱ | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios IV Philopator | 02 | Phaophi | 11 | -221 November 26 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
| P_23560_R |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| P_23560_V |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| DatasetID | 100554 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 46565 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100554 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23560), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
