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Pap. Berlin P. 23087

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23087
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Publication Status unpublished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
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non		 between 20 12 1906 and 20 12 1906
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty: high
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
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Two fragments without direct joins whose positioning relative to each other is unclear. All margins are damaged.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The text is not complete and mostly rubbed off. All margins are damaged. Parts of six lines are preserved.
Script, Primary Late Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting The handwriting is irregular. - quite large signs
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines Frg. a: x+5+y Frg. b: x+3+y

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragment of a possibly magical text
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian | magical
Summary of Content mention of gods, guenon and Mankhet-necklace According to Burkard/ Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 155, it is likely that it is a magical text.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
Frg. a
R
x+1 nṯr.w
x+2 pgꜣ 1In opposite to Burkard/ Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), the first deteminative is read as Gardiner Sign F17 and not as a ibis.
x+3 gꜣfj m gꜣ(.jt) ḫn
x+4 mnḫ.tyt=sn m sḥ
x+5 =sn

1 In opposite to Burkard/ Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), the first deteminative is read as Gardiner Sign F17 and not as a ibis.
Frg. b
R
x+1
x+2 tm
x+3
Frg. a
R
x+1[///] the gods [///]
x+2[///] 1The meaning of pgꜣ is unknown.
x+3[///] the guenon is in the chapel(?) [///]
x+4[///] their Mankhet-necklace(?) is in [///]
x+5[///] their/ they [///]

1 The meaning of pgꜣ is unknown.
Frg. b
R
x+1[///]
x+2[///] not [///]
x+3[///]
P_23087-Fr-a-b_R_001
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P_23087-Fr-a-b_V_001
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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 or Early Ptolemaic period -746 BCE -30 BCE paleopgraphy (According to: Burkard/ Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 155);

 

Pictures

P_23087-Fr-a-b_R_001
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P_23087-Fr-a-b_V_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 100415
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 100415 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23087), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.