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Pap. Berlin P. 23636

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23636
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) 154 mm | 37 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The lateral parts are broken off in undetermined extent. Damage of the lower edge. Some horizontal breaks.
Mounting framed under glass

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) All line beginnings and endings broken off in undetermined extent.On verso upper part broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Flüchtige, wenig sorgfältige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. Recto: The text was placed onto the upper half of the sheet, with broad upper marign. The lower half remains uninscribed except for one line. Verso: The lower part of the sheet (abut two-thirds?) remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5+1 x+4
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 30 x+30+y
Column Height (in mm) 100 x+50
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+30+y x 100 x+30+y x x+50

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter concerning delivery of wine
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | horizontal format
Summary of Content Letter concerning a delivery of wine.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_23636_R-vorlaeufig
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23636_V-vorlaeufig
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
10930 woman [///], son of Eschnoumpmetis (P: 23636) [///] sꜢ Ns-Hnm-mtr (not identified)

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

P_23636_R-vorlaeufig
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23636_V-vorlaeufig
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100596
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46626
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100596 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23636), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.