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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23559 |
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 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 Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, light |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 224 mm | 112 mm | mm |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The upper part as well as the left part are broken off in undetermined extent. Damages to the lower section, several holes in the sheet. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Comments on Object | Palimpsest. On recto traces of an anterior text in Greek (remnants of two columns with nine and five lines = TM 91334). |
Localization of Text on Object | verso | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Upper part and right parts broken off in undetermined extent. Lower part damaged. | |
Script, Primary | Late Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Roman Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | "Geübte spätdemotische Geschäftsschrift, stellenweise schwer lesbar." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
Comments on Text Layout | Wide line pitch. Verso: The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, with small right and medium lower marigns. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 0 | x+21 |
Quantity of Columns | 0 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 0 | 100+y |
Column Height (in mm) | 0 | x+200 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 0 | 100+y x x+200 |
Modern Title | Hardly understandable narrative with the main actor reporting before the king on hunger and thirst |
Ancient Archives | unclear |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Narrative, partly hard to understand. Presumably the main actor reports before the king on hunger and thirst. Then the king enteres his palanquin (according to Zauzich VOHD XIX,2). |
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 |
Roman Period | -30 BCE 211 CE | ; |
DatasetID | 100623 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Berlpap | 04979 |
Trismegistos | 50132 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 100623 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23559), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |