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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23623 |
| 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) | 276 mm | 87 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent, but presumably marginal only. Some minor holes in the sheet. |
| Mounting | framed under glass |
| Restoration Activities | Restaurierung abgeschlossen |
| Comments on Object | Palimpsest. On recto and verso traces of an anterior text. |
| 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 of recto broken off in small extent only. Beginnings and endings of the first three lines lost. | |
| Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "Geübte, relativ deutliche mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, with small lateral and lower margins. Line length varying. Verso: The text was placed onto the upper two-thrids of the sheet, without lateral margins and a broad upper one. The lower one-third remains uninscribed except for 3 lines (rotated by 180°) of the older text consisting of numbers. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | x+22 | 12 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 75 | 75 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 265 | 160 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 75 x x+265 | 75 x 160 |
| Modern Title | letter concenring happenings in Elephantine/Syene in context with famine |
| Ancient Archives | private archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Letter answering a foregoing correspondecne. It deals with a women who should not stay at the residence of the addressee due to famine. The sender agrees with this. He was not able to report about the happenings on Elephantine and in Syene due to illness. Some of the mentioned persons also appear on Pap. Berlin P. 23660. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Woman Man |
| Comment on Gender | - Activity of woman: staying at the addressee's place - Identifier of woman: none |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 10865 | man | Espmetis (P. 23623) | Ns-pꜢ-mtr | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
| 1085 | man | Hartophnachthes, son of Snebonychos | Ḥr-tꜢy=f-nḫt.ṱ sꜢ Ns-nb-Ꜥnḫ | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
| 10855 | woman | Tastis | Ta-sty | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic dynasty | 23 | Epeiph | 12 | -332 BCE -30 BCE | ; |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
| DatasetID | 100587 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 46613 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100587 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23623), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
