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Pap. Berlin P. 23674

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23674
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) 351 mm | 72 mm | mm
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Lateral edges slightly damaged. On the verso two small strips are teared off for the wrapping of the entire roll.
Mounting framed under glass
Comments on Object Papyrus was wrapped inside Pap. Berlin P. 23675.

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) complete
State of Preservation (Text) On the verso two small strips are teared off with text losses.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Geübte, flüchtige, enge mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Narrow line pitch. Recto: The text was placed centered onto the sheet, without lateral margins, but with small upper and lower margins. Verso: The text was placed centered onto the sheet, without lateral margins, but with large upper and lower margins.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 29 24
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 65 65
Column Height (in mm) 325 285
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 65 x 325 65 x 285

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter regarding a voyage of serveral persons to Elephantine
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter of Hartophnachthes, son of Snebonychos, to Eschnoumpmetis, regarding a voyage of several persons to Elephantine. Hardly understandable.
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_23674_R
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P_23674_V
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
9890 man Eschnoumpmetis, son of Snebonychos (carrier of Ra, Vorsteher der heiligen Binden) alle zusammenfügen. cf. 8066, wohl nicht derselbe! Ns-H̱nm-pꜢ-mtr sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-nb-ꜥnḫ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty 22 -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_23674_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_23674_V
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100609
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46648
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100609 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23674), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.