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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23611 |
| 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, light |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 122 mm | 172 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | The left half of the sheet is broken off. Near the left edge vertical stringed holes from the original sealing. |
| Mounting | framed under glass |
| Comments on Object | The papyrus was broken along the sealing. |
| 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) | Left part broken off at about half of the original line length. Some holes in the upper left section with text losses. | |
| Script, Primary | Early to Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "Sehr gute und flüssige früh- bis 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 a right margin, with very small upper and lower margins. Verso: The text was placed onto the upper half of the sheet, without right margin, but with a very small upper margin. The lower half remains uninscribed except for the address line placed centered in the lower section. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 9 | 5+1 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 180 | 180+y |
| Column Height (in mm) | 110 | 50 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 180+y x 110 | 180+y x 50 |
| Modern Title | letter mentioning a visit of certain persons to the sender |
| Ancient Archives | Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Letter of Snebonychos, son of Espneti-hetnetjer, to Espmetis, son of Espneti-het-netjer. Two persons have visited the sender, who will try to come to the Chnoum temple. Reference to a ship break, |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||
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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 865 | man | Espmetis, son of Espneti-hetnetjer (carrier-of-Ra and lesonis) | Ns-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ Ns-pꜢ-nty-(n-)ḥ.t-nṯr | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Late period - Early Ptolemaic dynasty | -664 BCE -222 BCE | ; |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
| DatasetID | 100578 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 46601 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100578 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23611), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
