Pap. Berlin P. 23229

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23229
Current Location	magazine \| papyrus depository
Publication Status	published

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 3 2 1907 and 3 2 1907
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) 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:
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Borchardt, Ludwig Certainty:

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, light
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The upper, as well as the left and right parts are broken off to an undetermined extent.

Localization of Text on Object	recto/verso
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	The upper part of the text is lost. All line beginnings and endings are damaged. There is a hole with text loss in line two on the verso.
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout	The text shows a broad lower margin on the verso.
Existing Pictorial Elements	There is a vignette on the recto. Five jackal-headed beings with wꜣs-scepter and ꜥnḫ-sign are illustrated.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	2
Height of Line / Letter

Modern Title	magical text with spells against fever
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	drawing religious \| polytheistic Egyptian \| magical
Summary of Content	probably a spell against fever (According to: Fischer-Elfert, Magika Hieratika (2005), 170) Recto: "The half temple" or "the half death" is mentioned on the verso. Verso: A threat against the gods and a formula to protect the magician are preserved partly. "The three-day heat" is mentioned.
Comments on Text	A reliable dating based on the paleography is not possible due to the short text and the paucity of characteristic signs. (According to: Fischer-Elfert, 168)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Transcription

Translation

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x+1	pꜣ gs mꜣꜥ pꜣ gs mwt ¹Readings according to: Fischer-Elfert, Magika Hieratika (2015), 169) n Pꜣ-ḫꜥ
x+2	šmm n ḥrw 2 r nsr.t wr.t grḥ

¹ Readings according to: Fischer-Elfert, Magika Hieratika (2015), 169)

vso x+1	bn jw=j dı͗.t ḥtp bn jw=j dı͗.t ḥtp=f
vso x+2	bn jnk ḏd s t wḥm s t pꜣ
vso x+3	šmm n hrw 3 ḫt-ḫt ḫt-n-sḏ.t ¹Readings according to:Fischer-Elfert, Magika Hieratika (2015), 168 and170. pꜣ n.tj
vso x+4	ntf j:ḏd.tw s t ntf j:wḥm s t

¹ Readings according to:Fischer-Elfert, Magika Hieratika (2015), 168 and170.

x+1	[///] the-half-temple \ the-half-death of Pꜣ-kha[///]
x+2	[///] [\|heat\|] on/ of two days against the great flame at night [///]

vso x+1	[///] [\|I will not cause\|] you to [s]et, &lt;I> will not cause you to set [///]
vso x+2	[///] It is [\|not\|] I who has said it, who has repeated it. I[t] is ¹According to:Fischer-Elfert, Magika Hieratika (2015), 169 the text continues as follows: " [///] who has said it, who has repeated it" [///]
vso x+3	[///] heat of three days ḫt-ḫt \ firewood of [///]
vso x+4	[///] It is he who has said it. It is he who has repeated it. [///]

¹ According to:Fischer-Elfert, Magika Hieratika (2015), 169 the text continues as follows: " [///] who has said it, who has repeated it"

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
9935	man	Pa-kha[///]	Pꜣ-ḫꜥ[///]	(none)

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Third Intermediate Period				-1070 BCE -714 BCE	Late Third Intermediate Period - early Saite Period: paleography (According to: Fischer-Elfert, Magika Hieratika (2005), 168): A reliable dating based on the paleography is not possible due to the short text and the paucity of characteristic signs. (According to: ibid);

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DatasetID	100014
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 100014 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23229), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.