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Pap. Berlin P. 23686

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23686
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
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non
between 12 11 1907 and 16 11 1907
Finder (= First Purchaser) Zucker, Friedrich (excavation director)
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 1907 and 1907
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 152 mm | 49 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The right part is broken off at about 50 of the original width. Some breaks and holes.
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) Line beginnings broken off at approximately 50 % of their original length.
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: Text with medium upper margin, but without lower one. Line length varying. Verso: Postscriptum and address are placed onto the very upper respectively very lower part of the sheet.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 13 2+2
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) -4040 25
Column Height (in mm) 135 15
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance (ca.40+)40 x 135 25 x 15

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter regarding the delivery of grain
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter of [///], son of Pelaias, to Pachnoumis regarding the delivery of grain.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
BER-PI_23686_R_001
Reserved Copyright
BER-PI_23686_V_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
11010 man Pachnoumis (P. 23686) Pa-H̱nm pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty Phamenoth 01 -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

BER-PI_23686_R_001
Reserved Copyright
BER-PI_23686_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100612
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46652
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100612 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23686), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.