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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23619 |
| 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) | 348 mm | 75 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | complete |
| State of Preservation | Lateral edges damaged. Some horizontal breaks along the foldings. |
| Mounting | framed under glass |
| Comments on Object | Palimpsest. On recto and verso traces of an anterior text. On verso not erased, new text written below the old one. |
| 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) | complete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | Some line beginnings and endings damged. On lower part some lines blurred. | |
| Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "Große, flüchtige, wenig sorgfältigee, unausgeglichene und etwas klecksige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift. Dazu auf dem Verso vom älteren Text kleine und etwas sorgfältigere mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. Recto: The text was placed centered onto the sheet, with small lateral margins and medium upper and lower margins. Verso: The text was placed onto the lower half of the sheet (upper part with older text) | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 23 | 10+[[1]] |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 65 | 65 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 325 | 280 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 65 x 326 | 65 x 280 |
| Modern Title | letter of assertion of innocence |
| Ancient Archives | unclear |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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| Summary of Content | New text: Letter of Samaus, son of Spotous, to a certain Spotous, containing an assertion of innocence, possibly related to a mortgage. Old text: Part of an account of grain delivery for or by ships. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 10840 | man | Pachnoumis, son of Teos (P.23619) | Pa-H̱nm sꜢ Ḏd- Ḥr | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
| 10835 | man | Spotous (P. 23619) (carrier of Ra) | Ns-pꜢy=w-tꜢ.wỉ | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic dynasty | -332 BCE -30 BCE | ; |
| BER-PI_23619_R_001 |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| BER-PI_23619_V_001 |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| DatasetID | 100584 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 46609 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100584 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23619), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
