Pap. Berlin P. 23031

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Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 23031
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
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director) 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 (excavation director) Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Borchardt, Ludwig Certainty: high

Object Type	papyrus \| amulet
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	- slight damage only on the left margin - In the upper part, there are holes distributed horizontally.
Comments on Object	The object was folded and pierced through to be worn around the neck with a string.

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	sligth damage in the form of holes and breaks
Script, Primary	Late Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian, Late
Comments on Text Layout	two words left below the text
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4

Modern Title	Papyrus amulet for the protection of a newborn child
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	religious \| polytheistic Egyptian \| magical
Summary of Content	an amulet for the protection of a newborn child
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	parallel: Pap. Berlin P. 23032 and Pap. Berlin P. 23051
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Woman Child
Comment on Gender	woman: mother of the newborn baby
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Transcription

Translation

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1	jnḏ Bꜣs.t msỉ.n sr.jw snq sn.tj ḥr
2	pn n Ḥr-wḏꜣ sꜣ n Jry-ꜣs.t-wnw-- ḥr
3	Bꜣs.t Ḥr sp-sn wꜣḏ n Sḫm.t ḥꜣ jwf=f ¹(For this construction see Felssa, Fleisch des Pharao (2006), esp. 17-21.) tm n ꜥnḫ sꜣ ḥꜣ sꜣ
4	jy sꜣ

¹ (For this construction see Felssa, Fleisch des Pharao (2006), esp. 17-21.)

1	Greeting to you, Bastet, who has born the ram that the Two Sisters have suckled. This face
2	of Horwedja, son of Jri-Aset-wenu-?-, is the face
3	of Bastet. Horus, Horus, son of Sakhmet, protect his flesh so that it is fully endowed with life. Protection behind protection,
4	protection comes.

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
17455	man	Horwedja	Ḥr-wḏꜣ	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
26th dynasty				-664 BCE -524 BCE	paleography; late 26th dynasty (According to: Burkard: Amulette für Neugeborene (2006), 111 and 114-115);

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DatasetID	100770
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	105735
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 100770 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23031), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Matthias Müller; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.