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Pap. Berlin P. 13622

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 13622
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Comments on Inventory This object was present in the Berlin collection in 1958.
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only

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) (unknown)
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution (unknown)
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Borchardt, Ludwig
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Rotation around horizontal axis (top to bottom)
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Viewed from the recto: large pieces of the papyrus from the upper and lower right edge are lost. In addition, the left and lower margin is destroyed. There are also a few holes with little text loss.

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) On the recto: The beginnings of all lines are damaged or lost. The length of the text loss varies from a few signs to half a line. There is only a little bit of text loss due to the holes in the papyrus. The end of line 20 is also damaged. On the verso: Parts of the signs are rubbed off. The beginnings of all lines of the upper text and the ends of all lines of the lower text are damaged or lost. The length of the text loss varies from a few signs to half a line. The ends of the upper text are also damaged. There is no big text loss due to the papyrus holes.
Script, Primary New Kingdom Hieratic
Language, Primary Late Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting The signs are very small and cursive.
Comments on Text Layout Several text passages of different lengths separated by large spaces are visible. The lines are longer on the verso and extend over the whole width of this papyrus sheet. The lower text on the verso is rotated 180 degrees with regard to the rest of the texts. The lines also vary in length.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 20 17
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Book of Temple
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content Based on the rotation of this object for the inscription, it is likely that this papyrus was not an official document. This object contains a part of the "Book of the Temple".
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_13622-Pl-B_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_13622-Pl-B_V
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
New Kingdom - Third Intermediate Period palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

P_13622-Pl-B_R
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_13622-Pl-B_V
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 100466
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 100466 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13622), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Matthias Müller; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.