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Pap. Berlin P. 23211

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23211
Current Location	magazine | papyrus depository
Comments on Inventory	The papyrus is distributed on five glass plates.
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Publication Status	unpublished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 10 1907 and 20 10 1907
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Zucker, Friedrich (excavation director) Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	partage
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Zucker, Friedrich (excavation director) Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Borchardt, Ludwig Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, dark
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	96 fragments without direct joins are collected under this inventory number. The damage of these fragments is severe due to the holes in the papyrus.
Comments on Object	The fragments are probably from different papyri.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto/verso
Text-Localization, Addendum	Mostly the verso of the fragments is inscribed.
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	parallel and perpendicular
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	The fragments contain different texts. The darkness of the papyrus makes it difficult to read. Signs are partly rubbed off.
Script, Primary	Old Hieratic
Language, Primary	Old Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting	different scribal hands
Comments on Text Layout	The text on one fragment (Pl. 1. vs.) shows the typical structure of a list with checked off notes. A black line that separates two columns from each other is on a further fragment (Pl. 5, rt.).
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	min. x+1+y; max. x+7+y	min. x+7+y; max. x+7+y
Quantity of Columns	min. x+1+y; max. x+3+y	min. x+1+y; max. x+3+y
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Different types of texts (fragments of a larger archive)
Ancient Archives	private archive | family archive of nomarchs
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary | account documentary | letter documentary | list
Summary of Content	It is not possible to make a definite statement about the exact content of the fragments due to its fragmentary state. The layout and the comparison with other texts from this archive point out that there are different text types.
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

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Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
06th dynasty				-2347 BCE -2170 BCE	paleography; the mention of Old Kingdom royal names (Merenre, Pepi II.) on other fragments from this archive; Sneferu (4th dynasty) and Sekhemkare (8th dynasty) are also mentioned;

 

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Literature

• Burkard, Günter & Fischer-Elfert, Hans-Werner, Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland: Ägyptische Handschriften (1994). (98-99, no. 143)
• Müller, Wolfgang, Die Papyrusgrabung auf Elephantine 1906 - 1908. Das Grabungstagebuch der 3. Kampagne (1982). (51 and 56-57)

 

DatasetID	100736
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 100736 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23211), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Matthias Müller; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.