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Pap. Berlin P. 23661

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23661
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) 104 mm | 112 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Consists of two not joining fragments. Fragment a: 30 x 60 mm. Fragment b: 65 x 105 mm. The lateral parts of both are broken off, as well as the upper par o f fragment a. Some minor holes in the sheet.
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) All line beginnings and endings broken off in undetermined extent. Some holes with minor text losses.
Script, Primary Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Geübte, sorgfältige früh- bis mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch Recto: With medium upper and lower margins. Verso: Continuation of recto placed onto the upper part, address line onto the lower part.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8 1+1
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 36 x+3+y+6+z
Column Height (in mm) 80 10
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+3+y+6+z x 80 x+3+y+6+z x 10

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter of unclear content
Ancient Archives unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | horizontal format
Summary of Content Letter of Snebonychos, son of Espneti-hetnetjer, to Eschnoumpmetis containing an answer on foregoing correspondence. Mention of a ship. Detailed content unclear due to the fragmentary condition.
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_23661_R-vorlaeufig
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P_23661_V-vorlaeufig
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
10985 man Eschnoumpmetis (P. 23661) Ns-H̱nm-pꜢ-mtr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late period - Early Ptolemaic dynasty 03(?) -664 BCE -222 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_23661_R-vorlaeufig
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P_23661_V-vorlaeufig
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Literature

 

DatasetID 100605
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46643
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100605 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23661), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.