Pap. Berlin P. 23641

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23641
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)	143 mm \| 75 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The lower as well as the right part are broken off in undetermined extent. Left edge slightly damaged. In the middle some vertical stringed holes from the original sealing.
Mounting	framed under glass
Comments on Object	Palimpsest. On verso traces of an anterior text.

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)	Lower part (recto) respectivcely upper part (verso) lost in undetermined extent, likewise all line beginnings.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Große, flüchtige 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 a small upper margin. Verso: The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, with broad lower margin, with address line placed, rotated by 180° with respect to the rest of the text. Below line 6 one short line with month and day of date entirely lost.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9+y	x+6[+1]+1
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	70	x+70
Column Height (in mm)	130	x+95
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	x+70 x 130+y	x+70 x x+95

Modern Title	letter regarding a voyage to the south and a shipwreck at Elephantine
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [lost])
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| horizontal format
Summary of Content	Letter to Eschnoumpmetis regarding a voyage to the south, possibly with a shipwreck at Elephantine.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
9915	man	Eschnoumpmetis (Lesonis) (P. 13559, 23580, 23637, 23641, 23665)	Ns-H̱nm-pꜢ-mtr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early)		Payni		-332 BCE -222 BCE	;

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DatasetID	100600
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46631
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100600 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23641), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.