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Pap. Berlin P. 23612

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Metadata

Collection

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

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) 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

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) 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

 

Text Content

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
  • documentary | letter | horizontal format
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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_23612_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23612_V_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

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

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) -664 BCE -332 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_23612_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23612_V_001
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

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.