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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 |
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) | 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 |
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 |
Modern Title | letter of unclear content |
Ancient Archives | unclear |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
10985 | man | Eschnoumpmetis (P. 23661) | Ns-H̱nm-pꜢ-mtr | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Late period - Early Ptolemaic dynasty | 03(?) | -664 BCE -222 BCE | ; |
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. |