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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23612 |
| 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) | 81 mm | 240 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | The left half of the sheet is broken off. Several holes. |
| 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) | Left part broken off at about half of the original line length. Some holes with text losses. Partly faded. | |
| Script, Primary | Early Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Early Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "Flüchtige, geübte frühdemotische 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, with a small upper margin only. Verso: The text was placed onto the upper two-thirds of the surface of the potsherd, without margins. The lower one-third remains uninscribed except for the address line placed at the bottom. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 6 | 5+1 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 240 | 240+y |
| Column Height (in mm) | 70 | 55 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 240+y x 70 | 240+y x 55 |
| Modern Title | letter reporting the shipping of emmer for the Chnoum temple domain |
| 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-hetnetjer, with a report regarding the loading of emmer on ships, presumably for the temple domain of Chnoum which wa sin danger(?). Request to the addressee to avoid any delays. The same addressee is attested in Pap. Berlin P. 15801+23682, 15614+12667. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| 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 (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) | -664 BCE -332 BCE | ; |
| P_23612_R |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
| P_23612_V_001 |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
| DatasetID | 100579 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 46602 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100579 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23612), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
