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Pap. Berlin P. 23042

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23042
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Publication Status unpublished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
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Borchardt, Ludwig
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation All margins are damaged.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Inks and Pigments carbon ink polychrome black and red
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) col. x+I: only the end of the first three lines is preserved col. x+II: the first part of the first eight lines is preserved
Script, Primary Late Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines col. x+I: 3+y col. x+II: 8+y
Quantity of Columns 2

 

Text Content

Modern Title Remedies and instructions for their application
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • scientific | medicine
Summary of Content This object contains instructions for the mixture of remedies and their application, seems to be recipes against problems with back and vertebral column.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
Col. x+I, x+1[///] .?. šsr jr-p.t
Col. x+I, x+2[///] .?. ns-šmt(?)
Col. x+I, x+3[///] .?.
Col. x+II, x+1.?. .?.s ḥr s(.t) kj(?)-rꜣ [///]
Col. x+II, x+2jr .?. m .?. [///]
Col. x+II, x+3.?. m bqsw(?) mj .?. [///]
Col. x+II, x+4.?..w smn [///]
Col. x+II, x+5m.w .?. ḥr bjt [///]
Col. x+II, x+6.?. [///] .?. [///]
Col. x+II, x+7stj(?) .?. sḏm ꜥ.t m .?. [///]
Col. x+II, x+8.?. ḏj r=f nꜣ pẖr.t [///]
Col. x+II, x+9[///] [///]
R
Col. x+I, x+1[///] .?. precept, making heaven.
Col. x+I, x+2[///] .?. fish-scales(?)
Col. x+I, x+3[///] .?.
Col. x+II, x+1.?. .?. with it. Another(?): [///]
Col. x+II, x+2making .?.-desease(?) in .?. [///]
Col. x+II, x+3.?. in the vertrebral canal(?) like .?. [///]
Col. x+II, x+4.?.(pl.) setting upright [///]
Col. x+II, x+5.?.-plant .?. with honey [///]
Col. x+II, x+6.?.-desease [///] .?. [///]
Col. x+II, x+7stretching/pouring(?) out .?. Getting to know of (his) condition [///]
Col. x+II, x+8.?. giving him the medicine [///]
Col. x+II, x+9[///] [///]
P_23042_R-Handphoto
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P_23042_V-Handphoto
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Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
26th dynasty -664 BCE -524 BCE paleography (According to: Burkard & Fischer-Elfert: VOHD 19,4 (1994), 222);

 

Pictures

P_23042_R-Handphoto
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P_23042_V-Handphoto
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Literature

 

DatasetID 100413
last Change 29.07.2022
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 100413 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23042), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.