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Pap. Berlin P. 23031

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Metadata

Collection

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

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 (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

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.

Text Basic Information

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

 

Text Content

Modern Title Papyrus amulet for the protection of a newborn child
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1jnḏ Bꜣs.t msỉ.n sr.jw snq sn.tj ḥr
2pn n Ḥr-wḏꜣ sꜣ n Jry-ꜣs.t-wnw-- ḥr
3Bꜣs.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
4jy sꜣ

1 (For this construction see Felssa, Fleisch des Pharao (2006), esp. 17-21.)
R
1Greeting to you, Bastet, who has born the ram that the Two Sisters have suckled. This face
2of Horwedja, son of Jri-Aset-wenu-?-, is the face
3of Bastet. Horus, Horus, son of Sakhmet, protect his flesh so that it is fully endowed with life. Protection behind protection,
4protection comes.
P_23031_R_001
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People mentioned in Text

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

 

Dates

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);

 

Pictures

P_23031_R_001
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Literature

 

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.