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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23597 |
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 16 12 1906 and 16 12 1906 |
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 1906 and 1906 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
Object Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, light |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 105 mm | 67 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The upper and lower parts are broken off in undetermined extent. Lateral edges from line 5 downwards lost. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Restoration Activities | Restaurierung abgeschlossen |
Comments on Object | Palimpsest. On recto and verso traces of an anterior text (grain account), not erased on the verso. For the writing exercise, the sheet was cut off from an already lettered larger sheet. |
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) | Upper and lower part broken off in undetermined extent. Lateral edges from line 5 downwards lost. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | 1) Old text: "Flüchtige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) 2) New text: "Sorgfältige mitteldemotische Buchschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Recto (new text): Narrow line pitch.With broad and sightly unequal left margin. Verso (old text): Wide line pitch. Wirth broad and equal left margin. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 9+y (new text) | x+4 (old text) |
Quantity of Columns | 1 (new text) | 1 (old text) |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 35 | x+30 (old text) |
Column Height (in mm) | 95 | x+50+y (old text) |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 35 x x+95+y (new text) | x+30 x x+50+y (old text) |
Modern Title | Account on grain (old); writing exercise with conjugation of verb (new) |
Ancient Archives | none |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | 1) Old text: Accound on grain. 2) New text: Writing exercise: Conjugation of the lemma Ꜥnḫ "to live". According to Zauzich in VOHD XIX,2, the sequence is divergent from the otherwise known schemata. |
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 |
8060 | not applicable | (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) | (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) | (none) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaic dynasty | 02 | Fourth Month of ? | -332 BCE -30 BCE | Old text; |
DatasetID | 100618 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 50136 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100618 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23597), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |