Pap. Berlin P. 10455

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Publication Status	unpublished

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: unknown
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty: unknown
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) Certainty: unknown
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	partage
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Abd el Megid (Luxor) Certainty:

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

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink polychrome black and red
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	The end of the lines from a column and few signs of line beginnings of the following column are preserved.
Script, Primary	"Späthieratische Buchschrift"
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	col. x+I: 18 col. x+II: 19

Modern Title	medical text: recipes for the anus
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	scientific \| medicine
Summary of Content	This object contains prescriptions and their applications. The names of drugs and their quantity are mentioned. Remedy for threating of the anus is mentioned.
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Transcription

Translation

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x+I
x+1	qbb nḏ swr r hrw 4
x+2	pẖr.t n srwḫ pḥ.wj=f
x+3	dr sry.t smj
x+4	r hrw 4 ḏd jy
x+5	whꜣ n ꜣḫ=s
x+6	jtḥ ḥtj m
x+7	ḥnꜥ rdı͗.t
x+8	1/8
x+9	rdı͗.t
x+10	n ẖr
x+11	fꜣı͗ šnb.t=f ẖr
x+12	bšj snf m pḥ(.wy)
x+13	wḏꜥ.w m sḥw
x+14
x+15	ḥr=s
x+16
x+17	snf m
x+18	1/8 ¹Gardiner Sign T14 is preserved at the end of this line.
x+II
x+1	jnı͗
x+2	j
x+3	b
x+4	ḫḫ
x+5
x+6	²The determinative mw is preserved.
x+7
x+8
x+9
x+10
x+11	g
x+12
x+13
x+14	1/4
x+15	4 k.t
x+16	jnı͗ nr
x+17
x+18
x+19	1/8

¹ Gardiner Sign T14 is preserved at the end of this line.
² The determinative mw is preserved.

x+I
x+1	[///] cool [///], crush, drink for four days
x+2	[///] remedy for threating of his anus
x+3	[///] Drive away the cough. Curds
x+4	[///] for four days. Say: ...? is coming
x+5	[///] failure for its ꜣḫ-power
x+6	[///] pull the smoke in
x+7	[///] and give
x+8	[///] 1/8
x+9	[///] ...? give ...?
x+10	[///] ...?
x+11	[///] his chest/throat rises due to
x+12	[///] speed out bleed in the anus
x+13	[///] wḏꜥ-dates in [their] entirety(?)
x+14	[///] ...?
x+15	[///] on it.
x+16	[///] ...?
x+17	[///] bleed in
x+18	[///] 1/32

P_10455_R_001

Places (read out from edition)

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
30th dynasty					paleography (Burkard & Fischer-Elfert: VOHD 19,4 (1994), 220);

P_10455_R_001

DatasetID	310590
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 310590 (= Pap. Berlin P. 10455), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.