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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23638 |
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) | 52 mm | 106 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The upper as well as the left part are broken off in undetermined extent. One large hole ikn the upper left section. Horizontal breaks along the foldings in narrow equal intervals. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
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) lost in undetermined extent. All line endings lost. | |
Script, Primary | Early Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Early Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Geübte frühdemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Medium line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, with a small lower margin. Verso: The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, with small right and medium upper margins. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | x+5 | 4+y |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 105 | 105+y |
Column Height (in mm) | 45 | 40+y |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 105+y x x+45 | 105+y x 40+y |
Modern Title | letter concerning a delivery of grain |
Ancient Archives | unclear |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter concerning a delivery of grain. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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Places (read out from edition) |
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) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) | -664 BCE -332 BCE | ; |
DatasetID | 100597 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46628 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100597 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23638), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |