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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23703 |
| Current Location | magazine |
| Comments on Inventory | joining: Pap. Berlin P. 15630, Pap. Berlin P. 15776 + Pap. Berlin P. 23703 |
| 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 |
| Finder (= First Purchaser) | Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) 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 1908 |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
| Object Type | papyrus |
| Color | papyrus, light |
| Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 75 mm | 34 mm | mm |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | Consists of three closely joining fragments. The right half is broken off except for the not joining third fragment P. 23703 from the upper right corner. Some holes in the sheet. The left as well as the lower part is broken off. Breaks and minor holes in the sheet. |
| Mounting | framed under glass |
| Restoration Activities | Restaurierung abgeschlossen |
| 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) | All line beginnings exceot for l 1-2 broken off. | |
| Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | "Geübte, flüchtige mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2) | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Medium line pitch. Recto: The text covers nearly the entire sheet, with a small upper margin in the height of about one line and an medium right margin. Verso: The text was placed onto the upper half of the sheet, with a small upper margin. The lower half remains uninscribed, except for the address line. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 9 (whole) | 5+1 (whole) |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 240 | 240 |
| Column Height (in mm) | 110 | 45 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | 240 x 110 (P.23703: 65 x 20) | 240 x 45 (P. 23703: none) |
| Modern Title | letter with a response and a report on trouble(?) regarding food |
| Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Letter of Espneti-hetnetjer, son of Espmetis, to Snebonychos, containing a response on earlier letters. Report on trouble(?) regarding fowl, beer and wine. |
| 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 |
| 10320 | man | Snebonychos ( P. 15630,15776,23703) | Ns-nb-Ꜥnḫ | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic dynasty | -332 BCE -30 BCE | ; |
| P_23703_R |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
| P_23703_V |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
| DatasetID | 100760 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 46526 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 100760 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23703), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
