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Pap. Berlin P. 23644

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23644
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) 151 mm | 61 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The lower part is broken off in undetermined extent. Righr part heavily damaged.
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) Lower part lost in undetermined extent, likewise most of the line beginnings.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Relativ deutliche 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, without lateral margins and a small upper margin. Verso: The text was placed approximately onto the upper two-thirds of the sheet without lateral margins. The lower one-third remains uninscribed except for the address line.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 11+y x+8+1
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 60 55
Column Height (in mm) 145 x+90
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 60 x 145+y 55 x x+90

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter regarding consent form and objecting
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter with an answer of Payris, son of Petanoukis, on foregoing correspondence with a consent form. Objecting is only executed regarding a matter concerning a cow.
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_23644_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23644_V
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8090 not applicable (no further persons mentioned) (no further persons mentỈoned) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty Epeiph 28 -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_23644_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23644_V
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100602
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46634
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100602 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23644), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.