Pap. Berlin P. 23070

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23070
Current Location	magazine \| papyrus depository
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	unpublished

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 3 2 1907 and 3 2 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 Type	papyrus
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Two fragments without direct joins whose positioning relative to each other is unclear. According to Quack, Mundöffnungsritual (2017), 431) the Frg. b does not belong to Frg. a.

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink polychrome black and red
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	The text is damaged in form of holes and breaks. Frg. a: col. x+I: ink traces of the last sign of four lines col. x+II: The first part of eight lines is preserved. Only the beginning of x+2-x+5 is not damaged. Frg. b: Few signs of one line are preserved.
Script, Primary	Late Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting	According to Quack, Mundöffnungsritual (2017), 431) the Frg. b does not belong to the same text that is on Frg. a. He mentions the different writing of the sign Gardiner G7.
Comments on Text Layout	There is a spatium in the middle of x+2, x+3 and x+6 of col. x+II. The word jr, which is written in red, marks the beginning of col. x+II, x+2-x+5. The black ink of the rest of the text was written over the end of the sign r. Because no mixing of the ink can be seen, it is likely that the scribe wrote the jr in all lines at first. The text of col. x+II is stichic. The lines of x+I are almost of equal length and end with the same characters.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	Frg. a: col. x+I: x+4+y col. x+II: x+8+y Frg. b: x+1+y

Modern Title	Ritual "Opening the Mouth"
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	religious \| polytheistic Egyptian \| ritual
Summary of Content	The object contains a comment on “The Opening of the Mouth Ritual” (According to: Quack, Mundöffnungsritual (2017), 435-436)
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Transcription

Translation

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Frg. a

x+I
x+1	=f
x+2	=f
x+3	=f
x+4	=f
x+II
1	jr Ḥr pw jw=f jrı͗.t ẖr.j-ḥ(ꜣ)b(.t)
2	jr sꜣ-mrı͗=f Ḥr pw qrs(.w) jtj=f
3	jr skı͗(.w) ḏw=k ft ftt ¹According to: Quack, Mundöffnungsritual, ... bw.t
4	jr nḏrı͗ m ꜥ n sꜣ-mrı͗=f ḏı͗.w m sꜣ tꜣ
5	jr ḏbꜣ.n sw Ḥr m šḏ=f nmtt=f Ḥr tꜣ m twt
6	jr j ḏbꜣ n Rnn.wtt ḏbꜣ.tw m
7	jr j Stẖ nn ḏı͗=j ḥḏı͗=k m tp n jtj=j
8	jr štp.t ꜥš ꜣḫw m rn ²According to: Quack, Mundöffnungsritual, ...

¹ According to: Quack, Mundöffnungsritual, ...
² According to: Quack, Mundöffnungsritual, ...

Frg. b

x+1	Qbḥ-sn.w=f ꜥb

Frg. a

x+I
x+1	[///] his [///]
x+2	[///] his [///]
x+3	[///] his [///]
x+4	[///] his [///]
x+II
1	[As to] […] Horus is it, who acts as lector priest. [///]
2	As to his beloved son, [_] Horus is it, who buries [his father]. [///]
3	As to „your evil was destroyed“ [_], turn away [the abomination]. [///]
4	As to “seizing by the arm of his beloved son”, given as protection of the earth [///]
5	As to “Horus clothed himself in his bandage (and) walked [upon earth as statue”] [///]
6	[As to] “The ḏbꜣ-garment of Renenutet, who is clothed in […]
7	[As to] “O Seth, I don’t want let you harm the head of [my] [father] […]
8	[As to]

([As to(?)] Scherpet, the calling(?) by the Ax-dead(?) with the name […] is it.)

Frg. b

x+1	[///] [Qebehsen]uf [///]

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RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty)					- Middle Saitic Period; first half of the 6th century BCE) (According: Quack, Mundöffnungsritual (2017), 432) - Saitic Period (According to: Quack, Streit zwischen Horus und Seth (2012), 916) - 30th dynaystie (According to: Burkard & Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 147);

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DatasetID	100743
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 100743 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23070), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Matthias Müller; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.