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Pap. Berlin P. 23638

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Metadata

Collection

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

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) 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

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) 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

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter concerning a delivery of grain
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | horizontal format
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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
BER-PI_23638_R_001
Reserved Copyright
BER-PI_23638_V_001
Reserved Copyright
     
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
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) -664 BCE -332 BCE ;

 

Pictures

BER-PI_23638_R_001
Reserved Copyright
BER-PI_23638_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

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.