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Pap. Berlin P. 23616

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23616
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)	179 mm | 71 mm | mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. Left edge heavily damaged. On the entire sheet continuous horizontal breaks along the foldings in equal intervals.
Mounting	framed under glass
Comments on Object	Palimpsest. On recto and verso traces of an anterior text On the right side one continuous vertical sheet join (kollesis) (10 mm).

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)	Upper part (recto) respectively lower part (verso) broken off in undetermined extent. Endings of the first preserved lines lost.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Flüchtige, wenig ausgeglichene mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Medium line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, without lateral margins, but with a medium lower (recto) respectively a small upper (verso) margin.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+14	14+y
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	65	65
Column Height (in mm)	165	165+y
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	65 x x+165	65 x 165+y

 

Text Content

Modern Title	letter with an report on an accident in some kind of context with an Aramaean(?)
Ancient Archives	private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [lost])
Text Types	documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content	Letter with an report on an accident in some kind of context with an Aramaean(?). According to Zauzich in VOHD XIX,2 the sender had to pay a punishment, which had upset him so that he was not able to drink and eat for three day (for this phrase cf. Pap. Berlin P. 23628.) The sender requests the addressee to meet the police chief when he visits Philae.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

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Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty				-332 BCE -30 BCE	;

 

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Literature

• Kaplony, Liste. (0016)
• Lüddeckens, Erich, Papyri, Demotische, Berlin (1982). (no. F181)
• Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Ägyptische Handschriften 2 (1971). (no. 243)

 

DatasetID	100581
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46606
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100581 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23616), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.