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Pap. Berlin P. 23055

TEI-XML-File: https://p612399.webspaceconfig.de/xml/elephantine_erc_db_100768.tei.xml

Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23055
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
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: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation This fragmentary object is a piece from the lower part of a papyrus scroll. There are holes and breaks. All margins 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) The large uninscribed lower margin shows that the fragment contains parts of the last six lines of a column. The text is damaged in form of holes and breaks.
Script, Primary Late Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian, Late
Comments on Text Layout The lengths of the lines are not equal. palimpsest
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+6

 

Text Content

Modern Title List of minerals or stones and their provenance
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | list
  • religious-literary
Summary of Content list of minerals or stones and their provenience; Typ: "XY, it is borught from..." It is also likely that this object contains a part of a ritual. (According to: Quack, Liste mit Naturerscheinungen, 355)
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
x+1 1Only few ink traces are preserved.
x+2 dšr 2According to: Quack, Naturerscheinungen (2009), 356. Burkard - Fischer-Elfert (1994), 91 read r=f. jnı͗.tw=f n Pr-nb.t-Jmꜣ.w
x+3 jwn=f mj ḫr bj.t 3According to: Quack, Naturerscheinungen (2009), 356 f. with n. d. jnı͗.tw=f m Ṯb.w k(y) ḏd Šnw
x+4 ds ḥḏ jnı͗.tw=f m Pr-Nmt.j
x+5.t 4The determinative Gardiner Sign O39 (stone) is preserved.jnı͗.tw=f m Pr-Mꜣy.t m Pr-Nmt.j dmḏ ꜥr 7
x+6 5The signs Gardiner Sign E23, Z1 and F28 are preserved.

1 Only few ink traces are preserved.
2 According to: Quack, Naturerscheinungen (2009), 356. Burkard - Fischer-Elfert (1994), 91 read r=f.
3 According to: Quack, Naturerscheinungen (2009), 356 f. with n. d.
4 The determinative Gardiner Sign O39 (stone) is preserved.
5 The signs Gardiner Sign E23, Z1 and F28 are preserved.
R
x+1[///]
x+2[///] red [///] It was brought from the house of the Mistress-of-Iamu.
x+3[///] his color is like myrrhe(?)/ honey(?). It is brought from Tjebu - Another saying: Shenu.
x+4[///] white flint. It was brought from the House-of-Nemti.
x+5[///] It was brought from the House-of-Mait (and) from the House-of-Nemti. Total: 7 stones [///]
x+6[///]
P_23055_R
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P_23055_V_(4)
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Jmꜣ.w (places.xml#s145)
  • Ṯb.w (places.xml#s142)
  • Šnw (places.xml#s143)
  • Nmt.j (places.xml#s144)
  • Mꜣy.t (places.xml#p146)
  • Nmt.j (places.xml#s144)
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    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) -746 BCE -332 BCE - 30th dnyasty: paleopgraphy (According to: Burkard/ Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 91) - Saitic Period: paleography (According to: Quack, Liste mit Naturerscheinungen (2009), 356);

     

    Pictures

    P_23055_R
    CC-BY-NC-SA
    P_23055_V_(4)
    CC-BY-NC-SA

     

    Literature

     

    DatasetID 100768
    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 100768 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23055), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.