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Palm. Berlin P. 23701 b

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Palm. Berlin P. 23701 b
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned

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
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non
between 12 2 1906 and 12 2 1906
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution partage
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1906 and 1906
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type palm branch
Color papyrus, dark
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 7 mm | 55 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The lateral parts as well as the lower part are broken off.
Mounting framed under glass
Restoration Activities Restaurierung abgeschlossen

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Lower part of line broken off.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Sorgfältige mitteldemotische Schrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Due to the remote preservation the placement of the text on the branch cannot be reconstructed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 1 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 40 0
Column Height (in mm) 5 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 40 x 5 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title oracle equipment
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | cultic archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | note
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian | divination
Summary of Content Oracular answer.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1p3 mḥ-8 ᶜḥᶜ=f n Ḥr
1No 8: This is standing for Horus.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic dynasty -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

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P_23701b_V
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Literature

 

DatasetID 300008
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 50138
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 300008 (= Palm. Berlin P. 23701 b), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.