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Pap. Berlin P. 23626

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23626
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) 204 mm | 64 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. Three larger holes near the right edge. Left edge slightly damaged. On the verso a small strip is teared off for the wrapping of the entire roll.
Mounting framed under glass
Restoration Activities Restaurierung abgeschlossen
Comments on Object Palimpsest. On recto and verso traces of an anterior text.

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 (recto) respectively lower part (verso) broken off in small extent only. Line beginnings partly lost.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Flüchtige, wenig sorgfältige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift mit einigen Verschreibungen." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire sheet, with very small lateral and lower (recto) respectivcely upper (verso) margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+15 14+(max).1
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 60 60
Column Height (in mm) 185 185+y
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 60 x x+185 60 x 185+y

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter regarding a delivery of 10 jars of wine, and request concerning health condition
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter of(?) Osoroeris regarding a delivery of 10 jars of wine, and request concerning the health condition of an ill woman.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: ill person after whom one asks
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_23626_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23626_V_001
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_23626_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23626_V_001
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100589
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46616
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100589 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23626), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.