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Pap. Berlin P. 23069

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23069
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Publication Status unpublished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 31 12 1906 and 31 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 The object is preserved in four fragments without direct joins. Their positioning relative to each other is unclear.
Comments on Object According to Trismegistos und Totenbuchprojekt Bonn, this object belongs to Pap. Berlin P. 3039 a-q.

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) on Frg. a: a large part of the beginning of some lines on Frg. b-d: a few signs of some lines
Script, Primary "Späthieratische Buchschrift"
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian, Late
Comments on Text Layout The column on Frg. a is separated by a vertical line.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines Frg. a: x+12+y Frg. b: x+6+y Frg. c: x+3+y Frg. d: x+4+y

 

Text Content

Modern Title Book of the Dead
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious-literary | polytheistic Egyptian | Book of the Dead
Summary of Content The fragments are pieces of a Book of Dead. Pap. Berlin P. 23069 contains: Tb1 (Frg. a-b), Tb 14 (Frg. c), Tb 15 (Frg. d).
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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Fragm. a, x+1[///] [///]
Fragm. a, x+2[///] jry=f jnk [///]
Fragm. a, x+3[///].w mnḫ.w m pr [///]
Fragm. a, x+4[///] ms .?. [///]
Fragm. a, x+5ḥms=ṯn j! rḏ t ḥnq.t [///]
Fragm. a, x+6mꜣꜥ-ḫrw j! wnw wꜣ.wt(?) r wpj [///]
Fragm. a, x+7pr=f m ḥtp n pr W[sjr] [///]
Fragm. a, x+8n=f mdw.w=f ḥnꜥ=ṯn Wsjr Nꜥr-ꜥ[///]
Fragm. a, x+9=sn sjp.kwj m rꜣ.w [///]
Fragm. a, x+10ḫꜥ.k(wj) m nṯr ꜥnḫ psḏ[.kwj] [///]
Fragm. a, x+11mꜣꜣ.n=j(?) nb.w(?) [///]
Fragm. a, x+12 [///]
Fragm. b, x+1[///] [W]sjr [///] r [///]
Fragm. b, x+2[///] .?. [///]
Fragm. b, x+3[///] sštꜣ sš[tꜣ] [///]
Fragm. b, x+4[///]m(?) jmj [///]
Fragm. b, x+5[///] mꜣꜣ [///]
Fragm. b, x+6[///] .?. [///]
Fragm. c, x+1[///] ḥr ꜥ.wj[///]
Fragm. c, x+2[///] mk jn n=k sḥtp [///]
Fragm. c, x+3[///] [///]
Fragm. d, x+1[///] n=j .?. [///]
Fragm. d, x+2[///] psḏ.n=f m [///]
Fragm. d, x+3[///] Rꜥ m ꜣḫ.t(?) s[///]
Fragm. d, x+4[///] m(?) [///]
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Fragm. a, x+1[///] [///]
Fragm. a, x+2[///] belonging to him. I [///]
Fragm. a, x+3[///] the excellent [///]-gods in the house [///]
Fragm. a, x+4[///] born of .?. [///]
Fragm. a, x+5you(pl.) sit. O you who give bread and beer [///]
Fragm. a, x+6justified. O you who open the ways in ordert o open [///]
Fragm. a, x+7He goes forth in the peace oft he house of Osi[ris] [///]
Fragm. a, x+8he did [///] his words together with you(pl.). The Osiris Nar-a[///]
Fragm. a, x+9they [///]. I am accepted on the ways [///]
Fragm. a, x+10I have emerged as a living god, [I] gleam [///]
Fragm. a, x+11I(?) have seen the lords(?) [///]
Fragm. a, x+12[///]
Fragm. b, x+1 [///] [O]siris [///] against [///]
Fragm. b, x+2[///] .?. [///]
Fragm. b, x+3[///] secret, secret [///]
Fragm. b, x+4[///] .?. being in [///]
Fragm. b, x+5[///] seeing [///]
Fragm. b, x+6[///] .?. [///]
Fragm. c, x+1[///] on both arms[///]
Fragm. c, x+2[///] see, I have brought for you offerings [///]
Fragm. c, x+3[///] [///]
Fragm. d, x+1[///] for me .?. [///]
Fragm. d, x+2[///] shine for him in [///]
Fragm. d, x+3[///] Ra in the horizon [///]
Fragm. d, x+4[///] in [///]
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Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
30th dynasty paleography (According to: Burkard & Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 147); 4th - middle of the 3th century ;

 

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Literature

 

DatasetID 100740
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 57136
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 100740 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23069), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Matthias Müller; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.