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Pap. Berlin P. 10453

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 10453
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Comments on Inventory This object is on one glass plate together with Pap. Berlin P. 10454 and Pap. Berlin P.10455.
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status unpublished

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
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
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Borchardt, Ludwig
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation one fragment with holes and breaks whose upper margin is complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments carbon ink polychrome black and red
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
Script, Primary "Späthieratische Buchschrift"
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 14+y

 

Text Content

Modern Title medical text: instructions for the mixture of remedies, partly against swellings
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • scientific | medicine
Summary of Content This object contains instructions for the mixture of remedies and their application. The prescription is partly against swellings. (According to: Burkard & Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 219, no. 325)
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
translation according to Burkard/Fischer-Elfert
1[///][šn(?)] ḏ.t ḏrḏ.w n ṯr.t ḥsꜣ ẖn bj.t mjt.t k.t sbꜣ(?) [///]
13[///] tp nsr (??) [///]
R
1[///] of jdjet-plant, leaves of willow, plant mucus, mixed with honey, the same. Another: .?. [///]
13[///] inflamed head (??) [///]
P_10453_Rv_R_001
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Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) paleography (According to: Burkard & Fischer-Elfert: VOHD 19,4 ( 1994), 218);

 

Pictures

P_10453_Rv_R_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 310588
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 310588 (= Pap. Berlin P. 10453), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.