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Pap. Berlin P. 23602

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23602
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) 161 mm | 83 mm | mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Left edge slightly damaged. Some horizontal and vertical breaks and minor holes.
Mounting framed under glass
Comments on Object Palimpsest. On recto and verso traces of an anterior text, on the latter not erased.

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) Complete.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Flüchtige, wenig deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. Recto: The text was placed centered onto the sheet, without lateral margins, but with small upper and medium lower margin. Line length varying. Verso: One address line only, placed onto the upper part.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 12 1 (+7 from older text)
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 75 0
Column Height (in mm) 145 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 75 x 145 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter concerning a visit without success
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter of Pamunis, son of Espmetis, to his superior Eschnompmetis. The latter visited a man concerning a certain matter, but failed.
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_23602_R
Reserved Copyright
P_23602_V
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
775 man Eschnoumpmetis, son of Chnoummachis Ns-H̱nm-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ H̱nm-m-Ꜣḫ.t pre-Coptic Egyptian
10805 man Pametis (P. 23602) Pa-mtr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

P_23602_R
Reserved Copyright
P_23602_V
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100573
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46593
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100573 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23602), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.