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Pap. Berlin P. 23677

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23677
Current Location magazine
Comments on Inventory joining: Pap. Berlin P. 13535 + Pap. Berlin P. 23677
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

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 2 1906 and 12 2 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

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, dark
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 177 mm | 222 mm | mm
State of Preservation The bottom is broken off. This end of the sheet with two lines of the second copy should belong to that copy and there fore cut off directly after the end of the first text. Horizontal breaks along the foldings.
Mounting framed under glass
Restoration Activities Restaurierung abgeschlossen
Comments on Object On the right side a vertical sheet join (kollesis) (1 cm). A protecting strip is glued on at the right side. The "scharfe Schnitt bis zur Hälfte der Blattkante" mentioned in P. Eleph. Dem. 1, no. 11 does not exist.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) perpendicular (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Lower part broken off in undetermined extent. In the lower left corner Pap. Berlin P.23677 joining.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. The right-aligned text holds small but equal margins on top and at the right side. Some lines end close to the left edge. Second version beginns after a small gap below the first version. Originally three version may be expected.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 13, 1+y 0
Quantity of Columns 1, 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 210 0
Column Height (in mm) 130 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 210 x 130 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title obligation concerning collection of taxes
Ancient Archives tax collector NN | correspondence archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | contract | vertical format
Summary of Content Contract as royal oath. Obligation of three persons concerning the collective collection of different taxes. Double contract with first copy and two lines of the beginning of the second copy.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Comments on Text
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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1st copy1st copy
1Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t sꜣ Pꜣ-wp.ṱ Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-mꜣꜥ Pa-rṱ sꜣ Pa-ḥr r s 3 nꜣ nty ḏd n wꜥ rꜣ 1Lit.: „with one mouth“.
2tw=n ı͗r ꜥnḫ m-bꜣḥ pr-ꜥꜣ Ptrwmys sꜣ Ptrwmys ı͗rm ꜣrsn
3tꜣ mr sn 2The real mother of Ptolemaios III. was Arsinoe I., not Arsinoe II. Philadelpha. But due to the banishment of the first, Ptolemaios III. used to name Arsinoe II. as his mother. ı͗rm nꜣ nṯr(.w) nꜣy=f sn.w nꜣ nṯr.w mnḫ.w ı͗rm tꜣ pr-ꜥꜣ.t 3For this title cf. also Moje, Herrscherfrauen (2013), with further literature. ꜣbrnge tꜣy=f sn.t tꜣy=f ḥm.t
4ı͗rm nꜣ nṯr.w nꜣy=f sn.w nꜣ nṯr.w mnḫ.w ı͗rm ꜣs.t ı͗rm Wsı͗r ı͗rm nꜣ nṯr.w Kmy ḏr=w
5ı͗w=n (r) šd nꜣ ḥḏ.w ḥmꜣ nꜣ ḥḏ.w ı͗n.nw 4Hitherto read incorrectly as ı͗n-šn (Erichsen, Demotisches Glossar (1954), 34). Alongside Brautschleier “bridat veil” it can (better) be read as Wolle “wool”, cf. Demotische Wortliste online, s. v. ı͗n-šn. n tꜣ sḫ.t Yb n pꜣ ḥtr n ḥsb.t 11
6n pꜣ s 3 r-ẖ pꜣ nty ı͗w=w (r) ı͗p ı͗rm=n n nꜣ ꜥ.wy.w (n) sẖ n pr-ꜥꜣ ı͗w bn-pw rmṯ ḏd mḏ(.t) ꜥḏ
7(n) pꜣy=f ı͗ry n.ı͗m=n n pꜣ s 3 mtw=w wṱ=w r nꜣ sḫn.w n pr-ꜥꜣ šꜥ-tw=n mḥ.ṱ=w
8mtw=n ı͗r pꜣ hy pꜣ ꜣs wṱ=n 5Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52.n pꜣ s 3 pꜣ nkt nty ı͗w=f (r) ḫpr n ḥw mtw=n
9pš=f r-ḥr=n n pꜣ s 3 ı͗w mn mḏ(.t) ꜥḏ (n) pꜣ ꜥnḫ mtw=n sẖ nꜣ ḥḏ.w nty ı͗w=w (r) ı͗r ı͗w
10r-ḏr.t.ṱ=n n pꜣ s 3 ı͗rm n pꜣ he nty ı͗w=f (r) ḫpr n.ı͗m=w r pꜣ ḏmꜥ mtw=n ḏbꜥ=f pꜣ nty ı͗w=f sṯꜣ.ṱ=f r ı͗r r-ẖ mḏ(t.) nb nty ḥry ı͗w=f (r) ḏı͗.t ḥḏ (dbn) 5
11(n) pꜣy=f ı͗ry n.ı͗m=n n-ḏr.t Pa-rṱ sꜣ Pa-ḥr r ḫrw=w n pꜣ s 3 n ḥsb.t 11 ı͗bd 2 šmw n pr-ꜥꜣ n Ptrwmys ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb
12 sꜣ Ptrwmys ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb sẖ Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-mꜣꜥ r ı͗r r-ẖ mḏ(.t) nb nty ḥry
13n nꜣ ssw 6Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 25. nty ḥry sẖ Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t 7In line 1 and 14 the name of this person is given as Harpaesis. sꜣ Pꜣ-wp.ṱ ḏd ı͗w=y (r) ı͗r r-ẖ mḏ(.t) nb nty sẖ ḥry n nꜣ ssw.w nty ḥry
2nd copy2nd copy
14Ḥr-pa-ꜣs.t sꜣ Pꜣ-wp.ṱ Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Ḏḥwtı͗-mꜣꜥ Pa-rṱ sꜣ Pa-ḥr r s 3 nꜣ nty ḏd (n) wꜥ rꜣ tw=n

1 Lit.: „with one mouth“.
2 The real mother of Ptolemaios III. was Arsinoe I., not Arsinoe II. Philadelpha. But due to the banishment of the first, Ptolemaios III. used to name Arsinoe II. as his mother.
3 For this title cf. also Moje, Herrscherfrauen (2013), with further literature.
4 Hitherto read incorrectly as ı͗n-šn (Erichsen, Demotisches Glossar (1954), 34). Alongside Brautschleier “bridat veil” it can (better) be read as Wolle “wool”, cf. Demotische Wortliste online, s. v. ı͗n-šn.
5 Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 52.
6 Cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 25.
7 In line 1 and 14 the name of this person is given as Harpaesis.
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Places (read out from edition)
  • tꜣ sḫ.t Yb (places.xml#r24)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    900 man Espmetis, son of Thotomous Ns-pꜢ-mtr sꜢ Ḏḥwtỉ-mꜢꜤ pre-Coptic Egyptian

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Ptolemaios III Euergetes 11 Payni -236 July 18 BCE -236 August 16 BCE internal dating, without name of the ruler;

     

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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 100764
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 44287
    Author Jan Moje
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 100764 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23677), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.