Pap. Berlin P. 23045

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23045
Current Location	magazine \| papyrus depository
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	published

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 30 12 1906 and 30 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 Type	papyrus
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The papyrus is preserved in two fragments without direct joins, but their positioning relative to each other is clear due to the text. One of these fragments (upper fragment) consists of two fragments with a direct join. The lower fragment is a piece from the lower part of the papyrus scroll.
Comments on Object	sheet join: upper fragment: 19-20mm broad lower fragment: 13+x mm broad - The sheet join was made carefully.

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 script is very faded. Based on the fact that a part of the title of “The Instruction of Amenemhet I for his Son” is preserved, not much is missing between the two fragments. upper fragment: nearly the end of four lines lower fragment: nearly the beginning of the following four lines which are the last lines of this column
Script, Primary	Late Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian, Late
Comments on Handwriting	no ligatures
Comments on Text Layout	- lower fragment: One sign was written on the broad lower margin. In line; x+2, sḫpr was written above an inkblot. - The scribe did not begin a new line for the second text, but wrote the title of “The Instruction of Amenemhet I for his Son” right after the end of the last text in the middle of the line x+2 of the upper fragment. Red ink highlights this title. - The text was written over the sheet joins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	upper fragment: x+4+y lower fragment: x+4

Modern Title	Fragments of the "Teaching of (Dua)Kheti" and "The Instruction of King Amenemhet I for his Son"
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	literary \| wisdom
Summary of Content	This object contains two teachings: “The Teaching of (Dua)Kheti” (XXXf-g; see Helck, Duakheti (1970), 148-149) and “The Instruction of King Amenemhet I for his Son” (Ia – middle part of IVa; see Helck, Amenemhet (1969), 15-26). “probably the latest known copy of a Middle Kingdom literary composition” (Quack, Sammelhandschrift (2003), 185)
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Transcription

Translation

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Fragm. A

x+1	wꜣ.t n.t ꜥnḫ mk
x+2	sbꜣy.t
x+3	nb-r-ḏr ḏd=f ḫꜥỉ
x+4	m nṯr sꜣq tw r smd.t
x+5	r=f tm. tj t ḫpr tmm.t rḏỉ jb m-sꜣ ḥr.yt=s m rḫ
x+6	ḫnms ¹Only the determinative is preserved. m sḫpr.w n=k ꜥq.w nn km jr.j
x+7	hrw qsn(.t) jw jn
x+8	wnm kꜣ=j jrỉ ṯs.t

¹ Only the determinative is preserved.

x+1	who are nothing and about [their] respect you don't have to worry
x+2	a friend. Don't make yourself confidents, that dosn't succeed
x+3	[at the] day of misery. Because I gave
x+4	[at]e the food, arranged tro[ops]

Fragm. A

x+1	[///] the way of life
x+2	[///] Teaching
x+3	[///] Lord of all. He said [appeared]
x+4	[as god] [///] [Beware] of the smd.t-staff
x+5	who prove non-existent ¹According to: Parkinson, Egyptian Poems (1997), 209, n. 3. (and) [whose] terror was not [keep in] mind. [///] [Know no]
x+6	[friend!] Make yourself no confidants – It is no [use]! [///]
x+7	[///] the [d]ay of trouble [///] [The one]
x+8	[who ate] &lt;my> food was the one who [reproached] [///]

¹ According to: Parkinson, Egyptian Poems (1997), 209, n. 3.

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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), 119) - Verhoeven, Literaturwerke in der Spätzeit (1996), 259/260, n. 35 prefers 26th dynasty - Quack, Sammelhandschrift (2003), 183 prefers the late Saite Period ;

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DatasetID	100747
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100747 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23045), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.