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| 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 |
| 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) | 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). |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
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| 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) |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||
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| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic dynasty | -332 BCE -30 BCE | ; |
| BER-PI_23616_R_001 |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| BER-PI_23616_V_001 |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| 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. |
