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Pap. Berlin P. 23104

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23104
Publication Number	TAD B.4.1
Comments on Inventory	Found in West Berlin Collection between 1960-1988.
Publication Permission Status	no permission for publication necessary
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty:
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Size (Height | Width | Thickness)	98 mm | 31 mm | mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
Comments on Object	Object published with FM #308164. See transcription there.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	perpendicular
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	"durch Brüche am rechten Rand stark beeinträchtigt; pro Zeile sind nur 1-3 Buchstaben erhalten."
Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting	"ungelenk wirkender Duktus"
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	6	0
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Fragmentary Receipt of Cancellation of Debt
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text	Simchi son of Shasher
Text Types	documentary | legal document
Summary of Content	Simchi son of Shasher did business with Shelomam son of Galgul. This quitclaim by Simchi for the commodities passed to Shelomam.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Comments on Text	Vocabulary is unique. If the reconstruction is correct, the text does not stipulate the condiction of the business transaction. It immediately begins a type of defension clause. This might then be the end of a longer document. Alternatively, this may be a court statement.
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

 

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Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				-525 BCE -399 BCE	;

 

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Literature

• Cowley, Arthur Ernest, Aramaic Papyri of the fifth Century B. C. (1957). (153f no. 49)
• Porten, Bezalel & Yardeni, Ada, Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt, 4: Ostraca & assorted inscriptions. (B4.1)
• Sachau, Eduard, Aramäische Papyrus und Ostraka aus einer jüdischen Militärkolonie zu Elephantine. Altorientalische Sprachdenkmäler des 5. Jahrhunderts vor Chr. (1911). (Tf 38)

 

DatasetID	100774
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	James D. Moore, Verena Lepper
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100774 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23104), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore, Verena Lepper.