Pap. Berlin P. 23633

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23633
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)	175 mm \| 93 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The upper part is broken off in undetermined extent. Some minor holes.
Mounting	framed under glass
Comments on Object	Palimpsest. On recto and verso traces of an anterior text. On the right side a continuous vertical sheet join (kollesis) (15 mm).

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 undetermined extent. Horizontal and vertical breaks with minor text losses.
Script, Primary	Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Auffallend große, ausgeschriebene früh- bis 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 very small right and lower marign. Line length varying, endings partly catching the left edge. Verso: The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, with very small right and medium upper marign. Line length varying, endings partly catching the left edge.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+11	9+y
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	90	90
Column Height (in mm)	165	155+y
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	90 x x+165	90 x 155+y

Modern Title	letter reporting the arrival of the Min priests
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [lost])
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Letter reporting the arrival of the Min priest Potemetous. The sender should have delivered one artaba barley to a certain Hartophnachthes which he has still not done.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (other)

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RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Late period - Early Ptolemaic dynasty				-664 BCE -222 BCE	;

BER-PI_23633_R_001

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DatasetID	100593
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46623
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100593 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23633), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.