Pap. Berlin P. 23089

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23089
Current Location	magazine \| papyrus depository
Comments on Inventory	framed together with Pap. Berlin P. 23090.
Publication Status	unpublished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 11 1907 and 20 11 1907
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
Color	papyrus, dark
Rotation	round vertical axis (side to side)
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	One fragment whose upper and left margins are complete.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto/verso
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
Script, Primary	Late Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout	Verso: Palimpsest: traces of a text and a drawing are visible; The new text was written vertically with regard to the older inscription.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	10+y	6
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	probably a letter
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	The content of this object is incomprehensible due to its fragmentary state and due to the faded text. It is likely that it is an official text due to the note of a date on the verso (According to: Burkard/ Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 108) or a private letter.
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

1	Ḥr-wḏꜣ
2	ꜥꜣ
3	n=k ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb ḏı͗.n
4	pr-ꜥꜣ ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb
5	šꜣwꜣ.w nꜣ ḏsr.w
6	nꜣ sḥḏ.w n(.j)(?) nswt
7	pꜣy=n
8	pꜣ qꜣy
9	pꜣ qꜣy n j.ḏı͗.t(w)
10	¹The rest of a cartouche is preserved so that the name of a king is missing. According to Burkard - Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 108.

¹ The rest of a cartouche is preserved so that the name of a king is missing. According to Burkard - Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 108.

vs. 1	šꜣwꜣ ¹Reading according to Burkard - Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 108. j.jry jw ḫr
vs. 2	r ²It is likely that the word starts at the end of line vs. 2. The Gardiner Signs E23, M17(?), D56 and D54 are preserved. pꜣ
vs. 3	bn j.ḏỉ.t(w)
vs. 4	pꜣ-Rꜥ wn
vs. 5	mdw.w nb(.w) j.
vs. 6	rnp.t-sp 12.t ꜣbd 4

¹ Reading according to Burkard - Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 108.
² It is likely that the word starts at the end of line vs. 2. The Gardiner Signs E23, M17(?), D56 and D54 are preserved.

1	[///] Horwedja
2	[///] large [///]
3	[///] for you, life, prosperity, (and) health. [///] gave
4	[///] Pharaoh, life, prosperity, (and) health.
5	[///] šꜣwꜣ(?). The splendor
6	[///] the ...? inspectors of the king
7	[///] our ...?
8	[///] the nature
9	[///] the nature of that what has been given(?)
10	[///]

vs. 1	made šꜣwꜣ(?) while [///] says [///]
vs. 2	[///]
vs. 3	What has been given is not there [///]
vs. 4	Pre [///]
vs. 5	all words that [///]
vs. 6	regnal year 12, fourth month [///]

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
17405	man	Horwedja	Ḥr-wḏꜣ	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty					paleopgraphy (According to: Burkard/ Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 108) ;

Pictures

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Literature

Burkard, Günter & Fischer-Elfert, Hans-Werner, Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland: Ägyptische Handschriften (1994). (108, no. 162)

DatasetID	100620
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 100620 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23089), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Matthias Müller; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.