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Pap. Berlin P. 23580

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23580
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, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 43 mm | 64 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The lower part is broken off in undetermined extent. Slightly damages of the right edge.
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) Lower part broken off in undetermined extent. Verso nearly completely faded.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Gute mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. Recto: Text with broad upper margin. Line length varying, some lines very close to the left edge. Verso: Two address lines only, second rotaded by 180° with respect to the first.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3+y 1
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 65 0
Column Height (in mm) 35 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 65 x 35+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter concerning misfortune happened to the sender
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Beginning of a letter to Eschnompmetis, concerning misfortune happened to the sender.
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_23580_R
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P_23580_V
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
9915 man Eschnoumpmetis (Lesonis) (P. 13559, 23580, 23637, 23641, 23665) Ns-H̱nm-pꜢ-mtr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) -332 BCE -222 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_23580_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23580_V
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100563
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46578
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100563 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23580), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.