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Pap. Berlin P. 23216

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23216
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
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Publication Status unpublished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 partage
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, dark
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The papyrus is preserved in two fragments without direct join, whose positioning relative to each other is unclear. All margins are damaged.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The text is damaged in form of breaks and is rubbed off. Small parts of eight lines are preserved.
Script, Primary "Späthieratische Buchschrift"
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines Frg. a: x+6+y Frg. b: x+3+y

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragments of a medical text
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • scientific | medicine
Summary of Content The fragments are pieces of a medical text. Parts of prescriptions and treatment instructions are preserved. It is not possible to make a more specific statement concerning the content due to its fragmentary state.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
Frg. a
R
x+1
x+2.t Ḥr
x+3 m stꜣ m
x+4ꜣjw
x+5 nfr.t gs
x+6 m tw
Frg. b
R
x+1
x+2
x+3
x+4 pr.t
R
x+1[///]
x+2[///] Horus [///]
x+3[///]
x+4[///]
x+5[///] beautiful ...?; annoint
x+6[///]
R
x+1[///]
x+2[///]
x+3[///]
x+4[///] go forth [///]
P_23216_R-Handphoto
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P_23216_V-Handphoto
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P_23216_R_001
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P_23216_V_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
34830 man Horus Ḥr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) -746 BCE -332 BCE paleography (According to: Burkard & Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 225);

 

Pictures

P_23216_R-Handphoto
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P_23216_V-Handphoto
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P_23216_R_001
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P_23216_V_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 100302
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 100302 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23216), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Matthias Müller; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.