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Pap. Berlin P. 23553

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23553
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 9 11 1907 and 9 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 | 73 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation On the right side three large holes. Formerly folded horizontally.
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) On the right side three large holes with substantial losses of line beginnings.
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: The text covers nearly the entire sheet, with small lateral and lower margins, and a broader upper one. Verso: The text was placed onto the lower fourth of the sheet.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 14 1
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 65 0
Column Height (in mm) 130 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 65 x 130 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter to the priest of Chnoum of unclear content
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter of Haryotes, son of Pachnumis, to the priest of Chnoum, Bienchis, of unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. The same addressee can be found on Pap. Berlin P. 23562.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Trilingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_23553_R
Reserved Copyright
P_23553_V
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
10450 man Bienchis (P.23553, 23562) By-Ꜥnḫ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty Mesore 18 -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_23553_R
Reserved Copyright
P_23553_V
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100616
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46825
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100616 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23553), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.