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| Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23228 |
| Current Location | magazine | papyrus depository |
| Publication Status | unpublished |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] |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) | Borchardt, Ludwig Certainty: |
| Object Type | papyrus |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | The papyrus is preserved in ca. 170 fragments. A few of them can be joined together. |
| Localization of Text on Object | (other) | |
| Script, Primary | Late Hieratic | |
| Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
| Comments on Handwriting | less ligatures | |
| Comments on Text Layout | - columns are separated by horizontal and vertical lines - guiding lines | |
| Modern Title | ritual compendium |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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| Summary of Content | The fragments are pieces of a religious compendium. The title of some rituals are preserved and ritual actions in favor of the god Harsaphes (e. g. “opening the mouth” (wp.t rꜣ), “revealing the face” (wn-ḥr), “the appearance of Harsaphes” (ḫꜥı-Ḥr.j-š=f), “the rowing of Harsaphes” (ẖnı-Ḥr.j-š=f), “the purification of Harsaphes” (swꜥb Ḥr.j-š=f) are mentioned. In addition, titles of priests (“his beloved son” (sꜣ-mrı=f) and “the high priest of Harsaphes”), the title “scribes of the gods” (sẖꜣ.w-nṯr), and writings (sẖꜣ.w) are noted. (According to: Burkard/ Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 163) |
| Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Script = Language Monolingual |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic dynasty | paleography (According to: Burkard & Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 163, no. 256); |
| DatasetID | 310594 |
| 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 310594 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23228), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel. |
