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Pap. Berlin P. 23080

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23080
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Comments on Inventory The fragments are distribtuted on one glass plate.
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status unpublished

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
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Borchardt, Ludwig
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation - four fragments without direct joins - holes and breaks - It is likely that the fragments b and c are pieces from the lower papyrus scroll. - Frg. a is from the upper part.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Frg. a: only ink traces Frg. b and c: part of one line
Script, Primary "Späthieratische Buchschrift"
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian, Late
Comments on Text Layout double margin lines
Existing Pictorial Elements Frg. a: - part of a vignette: cow with the Atef-crown lying on a shrine inside a naos with starry sky; offering table in front of the cow; line drawing
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines Frg. a: 1 Frg. b: x+1 Frg. c: x+1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Book of Dead
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • drawing
  • religious-literary | polytheistic Egyptian | Book of the Dead
Summary of Content The fragments are pieces of a Book of Dead.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
Frg. a
R
1 n Wsjr
Frg. b
R
x+1 jry n=k wn
Frg. c
R
x+1 sw r ḏ.t
Frg. a
R
1[///] of Osiris.
Frg. b
R
x+1 [///] done for you ...? [///]
Frg. c
R
x+1 [///] him eternal [///]
P_23080_R_001
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P_23080_V_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late period - Ptolemaic dynasty -664 BCE -30 BCE paleography - Late Period: According to: Burkard & Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 151 - Late Period - Ptolemaic Period: According to: Totenbuchprojekt Bonn, TM 57137.;

 

Pictures

P_23080_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_23080_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100015
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 57137
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 100015 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23080), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.