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Pap. Berlin P. 23107

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23107
Publication Number TAD D.2.1
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Comments on Inventory Found in West Berlin Collection between 1960-1988.
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
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 excavation finds
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1906 and 1907
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 33 mm | 116 mm | mm
Criteria for Dating Date in papyrus
Range of Preservation incomplete

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
Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting The final resh is written as a nun with a small right upper stroke.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragment of the First Line of a Contract.
Text Types
  • documentary | contract
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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1TAD: 1. [ב ... לירח ... שנת ]?? לאחשירש מלכא אמר 2. [... בר ... יהודי/ארמי זי יב/סונ ]⸣ל⸢[דגל ...]
1ב ... לירח ... שנת 11 10 11 לאחשירש מלכא אמר
2ל

1 TAD: 1. [ב ... לירח ... שנת ]?? לאחשירש מלכא אמר 2. [... בר ... יהודי/ארמי זי יב/סונ ]⸣ל⸢[דגל ...]
V
1Porten appears to overlook the writing on the verso in his first edition, in which he assumes the document was folded top to bottom rather than the typical practice of folding from bottom to top (“Aramaic Papyrus Fragments in the Egyptian Museum of West Berlin,” 21). The visible docket on the verso invalidates his claim.
1תנ2The name is not נתנ.

1 Porten appears to overlook the writing on the verso in his first edition, in which he assumes the document was folded top to bottom rather than the typical practice of folding from bottom to top (“Aramaic Papyrus Fragments in the Egyptian Museum of West Berlin,” 21). The visible docket on the verso invalidates his claim.
2 The name is not נתנ.
R
1[On the # day of the # month, year ]{2|12} of Xerxes the king, (so-and-so) said
2[...]⸢L⸣[...]
V
1[...]◦tan
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
29815 (unknown) ...tan ...נת Aramaic, Imperial

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Xerxes I 2 -484 BCE -476 BCE ;

 

Pictures

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P_23107_V
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100777
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 100777 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23107), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore, Verena Lepper.