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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23657 |
| 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, dark |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 141 mm | 55 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | complete |
| State of Preservation | In the upper section horizontal breaks. Possibly a small part of the lower section is lost. |
| Mounting | framed under glass |
| Comments on Object | Palimpsest. On recto and verso traces of an anterior text in Greek. |
| 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) | Some holes with minor text damages. Possibly lower part broken in small extent only. | |
| Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "Auffallend kleine, etwas ungelenke und teilweise undeutliche mitteldemotische 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, without lateral margins, and with a small upper margin. Verso: Two address lines only, placed onto the upper part of the sheet. Second line on verso rotated by 180° with respect to the first line. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 17 | 2 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 55 | 0 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 140 | 0 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 55 x 140 | 0 |
| Modern Title | letter requesting the delivery of something to the south |
| Ancient Archives | unclear |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Letter of Hetep-Chnoum, son of Psenpelaias, to Espmetis, son of Pete-[?] requesting the delivery of something to the south. Greetings to different persons. |
| Location of Composition | Biggeh or Philae Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium) |
| Comments on Text | The provenance of the composition is suggested by Zauzich according to the greeting formula mentioning greetings "here before Isis and the deities of Biggeh and Philae". |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 10980 | man | Espmetis, son of Pet[///] (P. 23657) | Ns-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ PꜢ-ḏỉ-[///] | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic dynasty | -332 BCE -30 BCE | ; |
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| DatasetID | 100604 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 46641 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100604 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23657), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
