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Pap. Berlin P. 23050

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23050
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Comments on Inventory This object is framed together with Pap. Berlin P. 2314 and another fragment which got the inventory number P. 23050 a. This fragment, however, does not belong to b and c.
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status published

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
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Two fragments without direct joins, whose positioning relative to each other is not clear. All margins of the fragments are damaged.

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) Text is damaged in form of holes and breaks.
Script, Primary Late Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines Frg. a.: x+5+y Frg. b: x+10+y Frg. c: x+2+y

 

Text Content

Modern Title astronomical text regarding the zodiac
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • scientific | astronomy
Summary of Content a list of names of a chief star of a zodiac constellation (According to: Quack, Naturerscheinungen (2009), 356) Frg. b: - in x+1, x+3, x+5, x+7, x+10: sequence ḥꜣ.t=f r pḥ.t=f + note - in x+2, x+4, x+6, x+8, x+9: name of a chief star of a zodiac constellation + note
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Bilingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_23050-Fr-a_R
Reserved Copyright
P_23050-Fr-a_V
Reserved Copyright
P_23050-Fr-b+c_R
Reserved Copyright
P_23050-Fr-b+c_V
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) -746 BCE -332 BCE paleopgraphy (According to: Burkard/ Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 90) ;

 

Pictures

P_23050-Fr-a_R
Reserved Copyright
P_23050-Fr-a_V
Reserved Copyright
P_23050-Fr-b+c_R
Reserved Copyright
P_23050-Fr-b+c_V
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100741
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 100741 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23050), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Matthias Müller; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.