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Pap. Berlin P. 23617

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23617
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) 217 mm | 86 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. Right heavily edge frayed. Sheet narrower towards the bottom.
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) Upper part broken off in undetermined extent. Right half of sheet with substantial text losses.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Gute mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, without margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+20 4
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 85 60
Column Height (in mm) 215 55
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 85 x x+215 60 x 55

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter regarding delivery and transport of letters
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter containing a report on engaging a reliable person for letter carrying. The rest of the text deals also with delivery and transport of letters. Detailed contents lost.
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_23617_R-vorlaeufig
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23617_V-vorlaeufig
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
10830 man Petosiris (P. 23617) PꜢ-ḏỉ-Wsỉr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty 15(?) Thoth 19 -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_23617_R-vorlaeufig
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23617_V-vorlaeufig
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100582
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46607
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100582 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23617), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.