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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23565 |
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 11 1 1907 and 11 1 1907 |
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 1907 and 1907 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
Object Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, dark |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 64 mm | 103 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The right part is broken off in undetermined extent. Some minor holes in the sheet. |
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) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Right and left parts broken off in undetermined extent, the latter in small extent only. | |
Script, Primary | Early Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Early Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Kleine, flüchtige, frühdemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Narrow line pitch. Recto: With small upper and lower margins. Verso: Address line only, placed centered onto the lower half of the sheet. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 5 | 1 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 100 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 50 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | x+100+y x 50 | 0 |
Modern Title | letter concerning anointing oil |
Ancient Archives | private archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter to Psammetichos-em-aui-Neith, son of Espmetis, concerning anointing oil. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man Woman |
Comment on Gender | - Activity of woman: unclear context - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
10470 | (uncertain) | Es[///] (P. 23565) | Ns-[///] | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
2720 | man | Psammetichos-em-aui-Neith, son of Espmetis | PꜢ-s-n-mtk-m-Ꜥ.wỉ-Nỉ.t | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
10465 | woman | Tahapis, daughter of Esortaios | Ta-ḥp ta ꜣs.t-ı.ır-ḏı=s | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) | -664 BCE -30 BCE | ; |
DatasetID | 100556 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46569 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100556 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23565), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |