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Pap. Berlin P. 23210

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23210
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Publication Status unpublished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 11 1 1907 and 11 1 1907
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
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The papyrus is preserved in six fragments without direct joins. Their positioning relative to each other is unclear. All margins are damaged.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
State of Preservation (Text) The preserved text is damaged in form of breaks and holes and is mostly rubbed off.
Script, Primary Late Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting „teilweise recht eigenwilliges Späthieratisch“ (According to Burkard/ Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 157)
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines Frg. a: x+4+y Frg. b: x+4+y

 

Text Content

Modern Title Amuletic papyrus
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian | magical
Summary of Content It is likely that this two fragments are pieces of an amulet (According to Burkard/ Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 158.)
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text similar texts: Papyrus Berlin P. 23031, 23032 & 23051
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
Frg. a
R
x+1 jm 1Ink traces of the rest of this line are preserved.
x+2 m nfr.wt n bḥbḥ.w r=j n jw sꜣ (n.j) ꜥnḫ
x+3 jr.t jr.t tm n ꜥnḫ qꜣ bsı͗ Bꜣs.t
x+4 2Ink traces of the rest of this line are preserved.

1 Ink traces of the rest of this line are preserved.
2 Ink traces of the rest of this line are preserved.
Frg. b
R
x+1
x+2
x+3
x+4
Frg. a
R
x+1[///] there [///]
x+2[///] in beautifulness of the beads for me [///] protection of life [///]
x+3[///] eye; eye. Fully endowed with a long life. Bastet enters(?) [///]
x+4[///]
Frg. b
R
x+1[///]
x+2[///]
x+3[///]
x+4[///]
P_23210_R_(11)
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P_23210_V_(10)
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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 (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) -746 BCE -332 BCE paleaography (According to Burkard/ Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 157) ;

 

Pictures

P_23210_R_(11)
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P_23210_V_(10)
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100305
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 100305 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23210), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Matthias Müller; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.