Pap. Berlin P. 23564

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23564
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	joining: Pap. Berlin P. 15771 und Pap. Berlin P. 23564
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, light
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	65 mm \| 100 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The upper as well as the left parts are broken off in undetermined extent. In the upper right section a rectangular hole. P. 15771 connects the two fragments of P. 23564 a and P. 23564 b.
Mounting	framed under glass
Comments on Object	In the lower section one horizontal continuous sheet join (kollesis).

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 part (recto) resp. lower part (verso) broken off in undetermined extent. All line beginings and most of the line endings lost.Lower part broken off in undetermined extent. Partly faded.
Script, Primary	Early Demotic
Language, Primary	Early Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	"Flüchtige, frühdemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout	Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire (preserved) sheet, with small margins on all sides. With small lower (recto) resp. upper (verso) margin.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+6 (whole)	6+y (whole)
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	260	260
Column Height (in mm)	75	75+y
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	260 x x+75	260 x 75

Modern Title	letter concerning, among others, the delivery of tgm oil
Ancient Archives	unclear
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [lost])
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| horizontal format
Summary of Content	Letter concerning, among others, the delivery of tgm oil. Partly very difficult to understand.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty)				-664 BCE -332 BCE	;

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DatasetID	100754
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46568
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100754 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23564), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.