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Pap. Berlin P. 23032

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23032
Current Location	magazine \| papyrus depository
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

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
Date of Discovery Term. Ante / Post Quem Non	between 15 12 1906 and 15 12 1906
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director) 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
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1906 and 1906
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, light
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	66 mm \| 238 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Two fragments without direct join whose positioning relative to each other is clear. There is a vertical gap of 10mm between these two fragments. The upper right margin is damaged. In the upper part, there are holes distributed horizontally.
Mounting	framed under glass
Comments on Object	The object was folded and pierced through to be worn around the neck with a string. It is likely that a piece of the string is preserved.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	parallel
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	The text is damaged in form of holes and breaks. The beginning of the first line is lost. There is a vertical gap of 10 mm resulting in some loss of text.
Script, Primary	Late Hieratic
Script, additional A	Early Demotic
Language, Primary	Late Egyptian
Language, additional A	Early Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	There are a few cursive and demotic signs.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5
Quantity of Columns	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	185
Column Height (in mm)	60

Text Content

Modern Title	Protection spell
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	religious \| polytheistic Egyptian \| magical
Summary of Content	amulet for a newborn child
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	parallel: Pap. Berlin P. 23031 and Pap. Berlin P. 23051
Multilingualism	Bilingual
Gender	Child Woman
Comment on Gender	- filiation: name of the father and the mother
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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x+1	=f nb p.tj j sqd tꜣ.wj m ¹written in Demotic nfr.w nfr ḥr
x+2	sqꜣb jm.j mrw.t sw dwꜣ=sn nṯr.w ḫt snṯ=sn ḫr mwt ḥr
x+3	ḥr=s Ḥr ꜣḫ ꜥꜣ šfy.t sw nb sḫm.t ꜥꜣ.t pḥ.tt mḥn m tp nb sw
x+4	Ḥr sp-sn wꜣḏ n Sḫm.t ḥꜣ jwf ²For this construction see Felssa, Fleisch des Pharao (2006), esp. 17-21. tm n ꜥnḫ Ḥr-wḏꜣ=j mw.t=f Tꜣ-dı͗.t-ꜥnq.t
x+5	wr

¹ written in Demotic
² For this construction see Felssa, Fleisch des Pharao (2006), esp. 17-21.

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x+1	[///] Lord of the two heavens [///], who drive through the two lands in beautifulness, beautiful of face [///]
x+2	the one who is covered, being in [///], he is a beloved(?). They may praise the gods on their foundations. [///] fall dead on
x+3	their face. Horus, the ꜣḫ-spirit. He is great of respect, the Lord of flame, great of power. He is the Ouroboros on the head of the Lord.
x+4	Horus, Horus, the son of Sakhmet, protect the Fleisch, so that it is fully endowed wỉth the live of Horwedja, his mother is Tadi-anqet,
x+5	the Elder.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
13980	man	Horwedja	Ḥr-wḏꜣ	Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
26th dynasty					paleography (According to: Burkard: Amulette für Neugeborene (2006), 114-115);

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Literature

DatasetID	100410
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	105737
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 100410 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23032), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.