Pap. Berlin P. 23619

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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	Samaus, son of Spotous
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| vertical format
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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RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty				-332 BCE -30 BCE	;

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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.