Pap. Berlin P. 23026

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23026
Current Location	magazine \| papyrus depository
Comments on Inventory	Pap. Berlin P. 14472, Pap. Berlin P. 29065 and two other fragments that do not belong to this object were framed together with Pap. Berlin P. 23026.
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
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 (excavation director) Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	partage
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Borchardt, Ludwig Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	- three fragments without direct joins - the upper margin of Frg. 3 is nearly complete - Frg. 2 consists of two fragments that belong next to each other
Comments on Object	The fibers of the recto are not straight (Quack, Anrufungen an Osiris (2012), 165). The sheet join on Frg. 3 was made carefully.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Frg. 1: few signs of few lines Frg. 2: few signs of few lines Frg. 3: col. x+I: parts of fourteen lines are preserved; the beginning of these lines is lost col. x+II: One or two signs of the beginning of nine lines are preserved. The lines x+1-x+4 are lost.
Script, Primary	"Späthieratische Buchschrift"
Language, Primary	Late Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout	The text was written over the sheet join.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	Frg. 1: x+4+y Frg. 2: x+5+y Frg. 3: col. x+I: 14+y col. II: x+9+y

Text Content

Modern Title	Invocation to Osiris as nocturnal manifestation of the sun-god in the context of a ritual for the king.
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	religious \| polytheistic Egyptian \| ritual religious-literary \| polytheistic Egyptian \| hymn
Summary of Content	Invocation to Osiris as nocturnal manifestation of the sun-god in the context of a ritual for the king.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	Textual parallels: inscription in Karnak (Euergetes-Tor, published: Pierre, La porte (1961), pls. 72 f.), Edfu (Edfou III, 34.5-35.11) and Esna (inscription no. 408, publ.: Sauneron, Esna IV.1 Le temple d’Esna, textes nos 399-472, Kairo 1969, 13; von Lieven, Himmel über Esna, 60-63, pl. 3)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

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x+1
x+2	pꜣ n nbḏ
x+3	mj ¹According to: Quack, Anrufungen an Osiris (2012), 167)r=k nb nṯr.w
x+4	ḥtp ḥr

¹ According to: Quack, Anrufungen an Osiris (2012), 167)

x+1	rn=k mj
x+2	=k nṯr pn jnḏ-ḥr=k nṯr pn špsj
x+3	ky rꜣ j Tꜣ-tnn pwy ꜥꜣ
x+4	... hꜣy.tj nfr.w=f ḥr.j nmj.t=f
x+5	wjꜣ=f

x+I
x+1	n rꜥ nb psḏ jꜣm.w nb nsp.w sḫm
x+2	ḥtp=f m dwꜣ.t m sSm=f wnn=k ꜥnḫ.tw r nḥḥ
x+3	bꜣ ¹According to: Quack, Anrufungen an Osiris (2012), 169) dmḏ rn=k ky rꜣ j pꜣ n.tj wbn=f m štꜣ
x+4	rnpı͗ ḥꜥꜥ n=f p.tj nꜥı͗ nn rḫ.tw=f
x+5	r tr=f nn jt=f ḥꜣp.n=f ḫft.jw=f ẖr=f dr.
x+6	n=f =f mj šw.j.tw wꜣš.tw r ² Quack, Anrufungen an Osiris (2012), 170 suggests dnj "hold back".) mꜣwı͗.tw wḥm.tj
x+7	ḥꜥ.w=f tm snḏ hrw=f n ḥꜥj sꜥḥ q
x+8	pꜣw.tj ꜥꜣ sḏtꜣ.w nb jꜥrꜥ.wt pẖr
x+9	sbı͗.w r=f ḥtp m ꜥnḫ.t ḥnꜥ bꜣ=f sṯnı͗
x+10	jm=k gꜣḥ smꜣꜥ-ḫrw=k r ḫft.jw=k jhy n=k
x+11	nḏ.tjw bꜣ.tjw špsj.tw qꜣ.tw m ḏ.t=k Wsjr sms
x+12	jꜣkb wr ḥkꜣ.w nby sw ḏs=f qmꜣ
x+13	ꜥ.wt=f ḥr wšb n=f hꜣ wꜣḏ
x+14	ḥr
x+II
x+5
x+6	pr-ꜥꜣ ꜥnḫ.w wḏꜣ.w snb.w
x+7
x+8
x+9	m hrw pn
x+10	ḫnt.jw
x+11	jy.n pr-ꜥꜣ ³According to: Quack, Anrufungen an Osiris (2012), 170)
x+12	ḏw jrı͗.n pr-ꜥꜣ ⁴According to: Quack, Anrufungen an Osiris (2012), 170)
x+13	jw=f wꜥb

¹ According to: Quack, Anrufungen an Osiris (2012), 169)
² Quack, Anrufungen an Osiris (2012), 170 suggests dnj "hold back".)
³ According to: Quack, Anrufungen an Osiris (2012), 170)
⁴ According to: Quack, Anrufungen an Osiris (2012), 170)

x+1	[///]
x+2	[///] the evil one [///]
x+3	[///] [come], Lord of the gods [///]
x+4	[///] satisfied with [///]

x+1	[///] your name. Come [///]
x+2	[///] your/you, oh god. [Greetings to you], oh noble god. [///]
x+3	[///] Another spell: Oh, these Tatenen, with great [///]
x+4	[///] the two [mourners] [covered] [his] phallus; the one who is in [his] bed […]
x+5	[///] his bark [///]

x+I
x+1	[///] every day, with brilliant shine, Lord of wounds, with powerful
x+2	[///] he s[ets] in the nether world in <his> image. You will be alive forever.
x+3	[///] united [Ba] is your name. Another spell: Oh one, who rises in secret
x+4	[///] young, while the two heavens rejoice him, the one who drives without being recognized
x+5	[///] in his time, without his father. He has hidd[en] his e[nemies] under him. [He has] eliminated
x+6	[///] his. Come shining, respectable to renewed, rejuvenate
x+7	[///] his [bo]dy parts, the one who is not afraid on his day of appearance, mummy
x+8	[///] [pr]imeval god with great secrets, Lord of uraei, the one who goes around
x+9	[///] the ones who rebels against him, the one who sets in the west together with his Ba, distinguished
x+10	[///] Be not weary! You will be justified against your enemies. Oh you
x+11	[///] is [protect]ed, endowed with Ba-soul, noble, high on your body, Osiris, the eldest
x+12	[///] mourning, with great magic, who created himself, who produced
x+13	[///] his body parts [///], when interceding for him. Oh fortunate one [///]
x+14	[///] on [///]
x+II
x+5	pharaoh, life, prosperity and health [///]
x+6	west [///]
x+7	[///]
x+8	[///]
x+9	on [this] day [///]
x+10	the ones who are in front [///]
x+11	came [pharaoh] [///]
x+12	evil; [pharaoh] made [///]
x+13	he is purified. [///]

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
34815	man	Osiris	Wsjr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
26th dynasty					26th dynasty: paleography (According to: Quack, Anrufungen an Osiris (2012), 166);

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Literature

DatasetID	100008
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100008 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23026), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel .