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Pap. Berlin P. 23206

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23206
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty:
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty:
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non		 between 26 12 1906 and 26 12 1906
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty:
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

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The papyrus is preserved in two fragments without a direct join. Their positioning relative to each other is unclear. All margins are damaged.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Frg. a: The whole line lenght of the last six lines is preserved. Frg. b: A part of five lines is preserved.
Script, Primary "Mittelhieratische Kanzleischrift"
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting more likely Late Middle Hieratic
Comments on Text Layout Frg. a: The text fragment has the characteristics of a list. Each line ends with a dot. The entries vary in their length. A broad right margin of one centimeter is visible.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines Fr. a: x+9 Fr. b: x+5+y
Line Lenght (in mm) 40

 

Text Content

Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list | name list
Summary of Content The content of this object is incomprehensible due to its fragmentary state. The name list of fragment a can be interpreted as notes about an account, a delivery or an attendance list.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender name of men and a woman in a list
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
Frg. a
R
x+1 wr.t
x+2
x+3Nfr -,,-unknown
x+4Jkwmj -,,-unknown
x+5Ny -,,-unknown
x+6Jnı͗-jt=f -,,-unknown
x+7 -,,-unknown
x+8Sꜣ-ḥꜥpy -,,-unknown
x+9Sꜣ-kwyw -,,-unknown
Frg. a
R
x+1[///]
x+2[///]
x+3Nefer -,,-unknown
x+4Ikumi -,,-unknown
x+5Ny -,,-unknown
x+6Inyotef -,,-unknown
x+7[///] -,,-unknown
x+8Sahapi -,,-unknown
x+9Sakuyu -,,-unknown
P_23206a-b_R
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P_23206a-b_V_(3)
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
11730 man Ikemi Jkmj pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Second Intermediate Period -1794 BCE -1550 BCE paleography: around 13.Dyn.(?) (According to: Burkard & Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 97.);

 

Pictures

P_23206a-b_R
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P_23206a-b_V_(3)
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100301
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Martina Grünhagen; Matthias Müller; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100301 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23206), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Matthias Müller; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.