 |
Home | Project | Search | Objects | Places | Persons & Deities |
TEI-XML-File: https://p612399.webspaceconfig.de/xml/elephantine_erc_db_100568.tei.xml
| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23592 |
| 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, light |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 160 mm | 265 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | Three larger holes near the right edge, otherwise several minor holes scattered over the sheet. Edges slightly damaged. Seven continuous horizontal foldings in equal intervals, one vertical in the middle. |
| 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 half heavily damaged. | |
| Script, Primary | Early Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Early Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "Große, flüchtige, teilweise recht schwierige frühdemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Narrow line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire sheet, with a small and equal right margin. Verso: The text was placed onto the upper two-thirds of the surface of the potsherd, with small lateral and upper margins. The lower one-third remains uninscribed except for the address line. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 13 | 8+1 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 255 | 245 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 150 | 95 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 255 x 150 | 245 x 95 |
| Modern Title | letter requesting some items |
| Ancient Archives | private archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
|
| Summary of Content | Letter of Esby to his mistress Espnetiseten with the request of sending some items, if a liable person for transport can be found. At the end there are greetings to a certain Peteese, son of Asychis, and a person with the Semitic name Yhyḥy "May-Yahu-live". |
| Location of Composition | Memphis Lower Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text | The locatin of composition can be detected as Memphis according to Zauzich in VOHD XIX,2, because the introductory formula contains "before Ptah". |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man Woman |
| Comment on Gender | - Acticvity of woman: mistress of a man - Activity of woman: addressee of letter |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||||||
| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 10730 | woman | Espnetiseten | Ns-pꜣ-nty-stn | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
| 42975 | man | Pateese, son of Asychis | Pꜣ-ḏı-ꜣs.t sꜣ ꜥšꜣ-Iḫy | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
| 42980 | (uncertain) | Yhyḥy May-Yahu-live | Yhyḥy | Semitic language |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) | Tybi | -664 BCE -332 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
| P_23592_R |
 |
| Reserved Copyright |
| P_23592_V |
 |
| Reserved Copyright |
| DatasetID | 100568 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 46586 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100568 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23592), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
