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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23696 |
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) | 201 mm | 77 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | In the upper section some larger holes near the edges, some breaks. On the verso a small strip is teared off for the wrapping of the entire roll. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Comments on Object | The papyrus is still mounted on paper (06/2016). |
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) | Minor damages of line endings and beginnings in the upper part. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Gute mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch Recto: The text was placed centered onto the sheet, without lateral margins, but with broad upper and lower margins. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 14 | 1 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 75 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 140 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 75 x 140 | 0 |
Modern Title | letter requesting for wheat and payment(?) of honey |
Ancient Archives | private archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter of Pachnoumis, son of Pmenches, to Parates. He sends a servant to the addressee with this letter containing a request for wheat and the payment(?) of a small amount of honey. The same addressee can be found on Pap. Berlin P. 23629. |
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 |
11025 | man | Parates (P. 23629, 23696) | Pa-rṱ | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaic dynasty | 15 | Pharmuthi | 12 | -332 BCE -30 BCE | ; |
DatasetID | 100614 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46658 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100614 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23696), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |