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Pap. Berlin P. 23571

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23571
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
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
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

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, dark
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 117 mm | 46 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper left corner is broken off, above presumably only minor losts. Several horizontal and vertical breaks.
Mounting framed under glass
Comments on Object Palimpsest. On the verso traces of an anterior text.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Upper part broken off, presumably few lines only.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Sehr flüchtige, jedoch deutlice mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire sheet, without lateral margins, but with a small lower margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 40 0
Column Height (in mm) 105 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 40 x x+105 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title report regarding the delivery of emmer for "the people of Syene"
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Report to Pete-[?], that the sender of the letter has placed 3400 artabas emmer at a third person's disposal "for the people of Syene".
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_23571_R
Reserved Copyright
P_23571_V
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
10480 man Pachnoumis, son of Panouphis Pa-H̱nm sꜢ Pa-nfr pre-Coptic Egyptian
10475 man Pete..?.. Pꜣ-ḏı-..?.. pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty 16 Payni 04 -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_23571_R
Reserved Copyright
P_23571_V
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100557
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46570
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100557 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23571), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.