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Pap. Berlin P. 23074

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23074
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

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:
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

Object Type papyrus
Rotation round vertical axis (side to side)
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation one fragment whose margins are damaged
Comments on Object It is likely that Pap. Berlin P. 23073 is a fragment of the same papyrus.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
Inks and Pigments type unclear polychrome black and red
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The preserved text is rubbed off.
Script, Primary "Späthieratische Buchschrift"
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting The texts on the recto and on the verso were written by different scribes. The space between the lines is larger on the recto than on the verso. Rubra are on the recto and on the verso.
Comments on Text Layout
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+6+y x+8+y
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title medical text
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • scientific | medicine
Summary of Content The papyrus contains prescriptions for the treatment of eye diseases on the recto. It is not possible to make a definite statement about the exact content of the text on the verso due to its fragmentary state.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
x+1 psḏ šw sjꜣ
x+2wꜣḏ msdm.t
x+3wꜣy mj.tt
x+4n.w ẖnt m jr.tj=f j
x+5ḏfḏ.w n.w jr.tj=f
x+6m-nw n šp.t
x+7 jr.tj=f
V

R
x+1shining [///] (and) sjꜣ-mineral [///]
x+2green eye paint (and) black eye paint [///]
x+3wꜣy-mineral as well [///]
x+4of the ẖnt-illness 1i. e. catarrh.in his two eyes [///]
x+5the irises of his two eyes [///]
x+6within the blindness [///]
x+7[///] his two eyes [///]

1 i. e. catarrh.

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Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) -664 BCE -332 BCE paleography (According to: Burkard & Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 223);

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 100518
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 100518 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23074), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Matthias Müller, Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.