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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23605 |
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 |
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 Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, dark |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 298 mm | 107 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The upper part is broken off in rather small extent. Lateral edges damaged in the upper section. Some horizontal breaks. On the verso smal strips were teared off for the wrapping of the entire roll. |
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) | Upper part (recto) respectively lower part (verso) broken off in undetermined extent. In the upper part line beginnings and endings slightly damaged. Text at the end of verso heavily faded. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Geübte, flüchtige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Medium line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, without lateral margins, but with a small lower margin. Verso: The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, without lateral margins, but with a small upper | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | x+24 | 22+y |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 105 | 105 |
Column Height (in mm) | 285 | 285+y |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 105 x x+285 | 105 x 285+y |
Modern Title | letter dealing amongs others with food for a falcon |
Ancient Archives | unclear |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter of unclear content. The sender has taken care for the food for a falcon. |
Location of Composition | Bige Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: low) |
Comments on Text | For the food of the facon cf. Pap. Berlin P. 23605 (here) and P. 23634 (according to Zauzich). |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
10815 | man | Espmetsepsis (P.23605) | Ns-pꜢ-mtr-šps | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaic dynasty | -332 BCE -30 BCE | ; |
DatasetID | 100575 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46595 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100575 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23605), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |