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Pap. Berlin P. 23054

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23054
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Comments on Inventory one glass plate
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 / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Borchardt, Ludwig
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation nine fragments without direct joins whose positioning relative to each other is not clear
Comments on Object

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Inks and Pigments type unclear polychrome black and red
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The fragments a and d are pieces from the upper part of the papyrus.
Script, Primary Late Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian, Late
Comments on Handwriting It is likely that Frg. I does not belong to the other fragments, because the handwriting is different from the other fragments. (According to: Knigge, Spätzeitliche Fragmente (2012), 75)
Comments on Text Layout
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines Frg. a: 12+y Frg. b: x+5+y Frg. c: x+6+y Frg. d: 2+y Frg. e: x+2+y Frg. f: x+2+y Frg. g: x+2+y Frg.

 

Text Content

Modern Title hymn to the god Khnum(?)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian | ritual
  • religious-literary | polytheistic Egyptian | hymn
Summary of Content This object contains a hymn, probably for the god Khnum, with at least two invocations.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
Fr. a
R
1ꜣ jꜣw n=k nṯr nfr
2 swꜣš.tw=k ḫmy.w
3 ntk kꜣ sṯı͗ jry
4 ḥr-nb sḏm njs n rḫy.t 1According to: Knigge – Salis, Spätzeitliche Fragmente (2012), 76 with n. 3
5 ḏdf.t ntk nṯr wr
6 sꜣw-ꜥ
7 2The determinatives Gardiner Sign G36 and plural strokes are preserved. nb.t nswt-bj.tj Pr-ꜥꜣ
8 jnḏ-ḥr=k H̱nm.w nb
9 ky dwꜣ ḏd-mdw jnḏ-ḥr=k
10 st nṯr nb m tr.w=f wbn
11 fḫ 3The determinatives Gardiner Sign V12 and D54 are preserved. jmj.w=f dm(ꜣ).tj
12 nfr-ḥr ḫnt.j-ꜣbw

1 According to: Knigge – Salis, Spätzeitliche Fragmente (2012), 76 with n. 3
2 The determinatives Gardiner Sign G36 and plural strokes are preserved.
3 The determinatives Gardiner Sign V12 and D54 are preserved.
Fr. b
R
x+1 jt ḥr
x+2 =f dbḥ.w
x+3 s.t=k ntk
x+4f.t=f nḥm sj
x+5 nṯr.w m-ꜥ rmṯ.w ṯꜣw
x+6
Fr. c
R
x+1=f
x+2 jmn rn=f
x+3 jr.w=f j
x+4 1The determinative G7 is preserved. wr ꜥꜣ
x+5 mj jrk Pr-ꜥꜣ
x+6 nṯr.w jry nṯr.w
x+7 nb nfr.w

1 The determinative G7 is preserved.
Fr. d
R
1 H̱nm.w jry nṯr.w
2
Fr. e
R
x+1
x+2w m nfr.w
x+3 m-ẖnw ḥb
Fr. f
R
x+1
x+2 pn
x+3 ntk j
x+4
Fr. g
R
x+1
x+2 bjn ḏw
x+3 ms
Fr. h
R
x+1 dgꜣ ḥꜥ.w
Fr. i
R
x+1
x+2 jmꜣḫ.w
x+3 ms
Frg. a
R
1[///] Adoration of you, perfect god [///]
2[///] you are praised, unknown one [///]
3[///] You are the creating bull, creator [///]
4[///] everyone; the one who hears the calling of the common folk [///]
5[///] worms. You are the great god [///]
6[///] the infirm person [///]
7[///] every [bad thing]; The King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Pharaoh [///]
8[///] Greetings to you, Khnoum, Lord of [///]
9[///] [Another] praise: recitation: Greetings to you [///]
10[///] every god in his ?, the one who rises [///]
11[///] the one who [loosen] that what is in him; two wings [///]
12[///] with beautiful face; foremost of Elephantine [///]
Frg. b
R
x+1[///] father [///]
x+2[///] he [///] the requests [///]
x+3[///] [your throne; You are [///]
x+4[///] his [///] who rescues the man [///]
x+5[///] gods together with people air [///]
x+6[///]
Frg. c
R
x+1[///] his/he [///]
x+2[///] whose name is hidden [///]
x+3[///] his forms [///]
x+4[///] very great one [///]
x+5[///] [come], Pharaoh [///]
x+6[///] the gods; the one who creates the gods [///]
x+7[///] Lord of beauty [///]
Frg. d
R
1[///] [Kh]noum, who creates the gods [///]
2[///]
Frg. e
R
x+1[///]
x+2[///] in beauty [///]
x+3[///] [in]side the festival pavilion [///]
Frg. f
R
x+1[///]
x+2[///] this [///]
x+3[///] you are [///]
x+4[///]
Frg. g
R
x+1[///]
x+2[///] evil and bad [///]
x+3[///]
Frg. h
R
x+1[///] the one who sees the bodies [///]
Frg. i
R
x+1[///]
x+2Revered one [///]
x+3[///]
P_23054_R-Handphoto
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P_23054_V-Handphoto
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    19900 man Khnum חנומ / חנמ Aramaic, Imperial

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    30th dynasty paleopgraphy (According to: Burkard & Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 140) first half of the 4th century (Knigge, Spätzeitliche Fragmente (2012), 86) ;

     

    Pictures

    P_23054_R-Handphoto
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    P_23054_V-Handphoto
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    P_23054_R_001
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    P_23054_V_001
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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 100012
    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 100012 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23054), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.