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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23562 |
| 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 9 11 1907 and 9 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 Type | papyrus |
| Color | papyrus, light |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 322 mm | 84 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | complete |
| State of Preservation | Complete. The papyrus is narrower at the bottom than at the top. |
| Mounting | framed under glass |
| 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) | complete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | Complete. | |
| Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige, geübte, relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Medium line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the sheet, without lateral margins, but with medium upper and broad lower margins. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 2119 | 2 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 70 | 0 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 220 | 0 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 70 x 220 | 0 |
| Modern Title | Accompanying letter concerning correspondence which has to be dispatched further |
| Ancient Archives | Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Accompanying letter of Peteharsomtus, son of Thotomous, to Bienchis, concerning a batch of letters which the sender, who travelled from Ptolemais to Elephantine and has now arrived in Edfu, ordered to be dispatched further by a third person. The same addresseed is mentioned on Pap. Berlin P. 23553 vor. |
| Location of Composition | Edfou / Apollonpolis magna Upper Egypt Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 10450 | man | Bienchis (P.23553, 23562) | By-Ꜥnḫ | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic dynasty | 16 | Mesore | 13 | -332 BCE 0 CE | dating by palaeography; |
| P_23562_R-vorlaeufig |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| P_23562_V-vorlaeufig |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| DatasetID | 100555 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 46567 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100555 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23562), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
