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Pap. Berlin P. 23601

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23601
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) 208 mm | 101 mm | mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation The left edge is frayed with some larger holes.
Mounting framed under glass
Restoration Activities Restaurierung abgeschlossen
Comments on Object Palimpsest. On recto and verso traces of an anterior text, on the latter more distinct.

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) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Line endings lost in upper part. Line on verso partial damaged.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. Recto: The text was placed onto the upper two-thirds of the sheet, with very small lateral margins and a broad upper one in the height of approximately two lines. Firdst line with slightly larger distance to the right edge. The lower one-third remains uninscribed. Verso: One address line only, placed onto toe lower part of the sheet.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9 1
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 90 0
Column Height (in mm) 120 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 90 x 120 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter informing on birth-giving in the house of the grandfather
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter of Chnoummachis, son of Espmetis, to Eschnompmetis, as an answer on foregoing correspondence, informing that a woman will give birth in the house of her father.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Trilingual
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: giving birth in house of father - Identifier of woman: none (only mentioned as "woman")

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_23601_R
Reserved Copyright
P_23601_V
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
9890 man Eschnoumpmetis, son of Snebonychos (carrier of Ra, Vorsteher der heiligen Binden) alle zusammenfügen. cf. 8066, wohl nicht derselbe! Ns-H̱nm-pꜢ-mtr sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-nb-ꜥnḫ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty 01 Choiak 27 -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_23601_R
Reserved Copyright
P_23601_V
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100572
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46592
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100572 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23601), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.