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Pap. Berlin P. 23583

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23583
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
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non
between 19 12 1906 and 19 12 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 1906
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 60 mm | 96 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The lateral parts are broken off in undetermined extent. Damages of the lower edge. Some minor holes in the sheet.
Mounting framed under glass
Restoration Activities Restaurierung abgeschlossen
Comments on Object Script on recto parallel to the fibres: unusual for horizontal format letters.

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) All line beginnings and endings broken off. Last line on recto damaged. On Verso two lines erased, possibly from an earlier text.
Script, Primary Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Geübte, relativ sorgfältige früh- bis mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. Reco: The text covers nearly the entire sheet, with small upper marign. Verso: The text was placed onto the lower half of the sheet, below the erased lines, without a lower margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6(+y?) (x+2?, eraded) + 4
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 95 x+95+y
Column Height (in mm) 55 35
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+95+y x 55 x+95+y x 35

 

Text Content

Modern Title account in connection with the temple domain of Chnoum
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
  • documentary | letter | horizontal format
Summary of Content Letter(?) with an account in connection with the temple domain of Chnoum.
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_23583_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23583_V
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late period - Early Ptolemaic dynasty 06 -664 BCE -222 BCE Internal dating, without name of the ruler. Dating by palaeography.;

 

Pictures

P_23583_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23583_V
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100565
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46581
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100565 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23583), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.