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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23570 |
| 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 |
| Date of Discovery Term. Ante / Post Quem Non |
between 11 1 1907 and 11 1 1907 |
| Finder (= First Purchaser) | Rubensohn, Otto (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 Type | papyrus |
| Color | papyrus, dark |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 189 mm | 184 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | The upper and lower parts are broken off. Larger holes in the upper left and lower right section. Several holes in the sheet. |
| Mounting | framed under glass |
| Comments on Object | A letter in unusual format regularly useds for documents. |
| 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) | Ending of line 1 and beginning of last lines lost. Several holes with substantial text losses. | |
| Script, Primary | Early Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Early Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "Relativ deutliche frühdemotische Geschäftsschrift und eigenhändige Unterschriften." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Medium line pitch. Recto: The right-aligned text shows broad upper and right margins, but no lower margin. Line length varying. Verso: One line only, rotated by 90° with respect to the Recto, placed centered onto the very lower section. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 12 | 1 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 140 | 0 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 135 | 0 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 140 x 135 | 0 |
| Modern Title | letter requesting emmer for the divine offerings |
| Ancient Archives | Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Letter from the Chnoum priests in the format of a document, concerning the request of delivery of 50 artabas emmer for the offerings for Chnoum of Elephantine. Content unclear due to the fragmentary condition. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: ) |
| 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 |
| 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 | ||
| 85 | man | priests of Chnoum of Elephantine | prỈests of Chnum of ElephantỈne | pre-Coptic Egyptian | ||
| 11135 | man | [///]metis | [///]-mtr | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) | -332 BCE -264 BCE | ; |
| P_23570_R |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| P_23570_V |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| DatasetID | 100617 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 50134 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100617 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23570), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
