Pap. Berlin P. 23210

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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Publication Status	unpublished

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 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.

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

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)

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Frg. a

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

Frg. a

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

P_23210_R_(11)

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P_23210_V_(10)

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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) ;

P_23210_R_(11)

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P_23210_V_(10)

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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.