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Pap. Berlin P. 23614

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23614
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, dark
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 183 mm | 67 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. Edges slightly damaged.
Mounting framed under glass
Restoration Activities Restaurierung abgeschlossen
Comments on Object Palimpsest. On recto and verso traces of an anterior text. On verso at least 17 lines containing names and numbers, with all line beginnings preserved

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Upper part broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Große, sehr flüchtige und teilweise recht undeutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. The text has no lateral margins, but a broad lower one in the height of approximately two lines.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+12 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 65 0
Column Height (in mm) 150 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+65 x 150 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter regarding two breads
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter of Osoroeris, son of Teos, mentioning two breads also appearing on the contemporary Pap Berlin P.15806. One loaf Haryothes should receive, and the sender will care about the other one.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_23614_R
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P_23614_V
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
10825 man Haryotes (P. 23614) Ḥr-wḏꜢ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty 18 Mecheir 29 -332 BCE -30 BCE same date: Pap Berlin P. 15806;

 

Pictures

P_23614_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23614_V
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100580
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46604
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100580 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23614), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.