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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Publication Status | unpublished |
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 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. |
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 |
Modern Title | Book of Dead |
Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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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) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||
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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.; |
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. |