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Pap. Berlin P. 29009

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 29009
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Publication Permission Status no permission for publication necessary
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 / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
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 / 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 four fragments without direct joins The positioning of two fragments relative to each other is clear.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink polychrome black and red
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
Script, Primary Late Hieratic
Script, additional A Demotic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting - slight cursive tendencies. - influences of Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Each line begins with a rubrum. The line heights between the rubra and the text are different. So it is likely that the rubra were written before the rest of text was written. (Quack, Traumbücher (2010), 100)
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines Frg. a+b: col. x+I: x+10+y col. x+II: x+2 Frg. b: x+5+y Frg. c: x+4+y

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragment of a "Book of Dream"
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious-literary | polytheistic Egyptian
Summary of Content These fragments are pieces of a “Book of Dream”.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text Demotic word group in Frg. A, x+1 and x+3
Multilingualism Bilingual Monolingual Script = Language Script ≠ Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
Frg. a+b
R
col. x+I
x+1 ḫft.j=f
x+2
x+3 jw=f (r) jri.t šnw ꜥꜣ 1According to: Quack, Traumbücher (2010), 100 f.
x+4sj jw=f nwꜣ r=f Sꜣ.wtj 2According to: Quack, Traumbücher (2010), 100 f. jw=w (r) dı͗(.t) n=f ꜥq.w
x+5sj jw=f nwꜣ r=f Nḫb jw=f (r) jrı͗.t šnw ꜥꜣ
x+6sj jw=f nwꜣ r=f Bꜣ.t jw ḥꜣ.tj=f mtj mdw.t
x+7sj jw=f nwꜣ ꜣbw jw=f (r) jrı͗.t ꜥnḫ ꜥꜣ
x+8sj jw=f šmı͗ ḥr.j
x+9sj jw=f jw nwꜣ ḫprr m tp=f jw=f r mwt=f
x+10sj jw=f ns=f jw=f jw=w (r) ṯꜣı͗(.t) pꜣ(y)=f ꜥq.w
col. x+II3The beginnings of some lines written in red are preserved.

1 According to: Quack, Traumbücher (2010), 100 f.
2 According to: Quack, Traumbücher (2010), 100 f.
3 The beginnings of some lines written in red are preserved.
Frg. c
R
x+1sj jw=f
x+2sj jw=f
x+3sj jw
x+4sj jw
x+5sj
Frg. d
R
x+1 jw=f n
x+2 jw=f swı͗
x+3sj jw=f n j(ꜣ)s
x+4sj jw wnm ꜥq
Frg. a+b
R
x+1[///] his enemy.
x+2[///] he will become seriously ill.
x+3[///] he will be
x+4A man, [who] [dreams] of himself in Assiut, will be given loaves.
x+5A man, [who] [dreams] [of] himself in Elkab, will become seriously ill.
x+6A man, who dreams of himself in Bat, whose heart will be content in a business.
x+7A man, who dreams of himself in Elephantine, he will have a long live.
x+8A man, who [goes] [///] supervisor.
x+9A man, who dreams [///] that a scrab is on his head, he will die.
x+10[A man, who] [///] his tongue [///], his loaves will be taken.
Frg. c
R
x+1[A man][, who] [///]
x+2A man, who [///]
x+3A man, who [///]
x+4A man, who [///]
x+5A man[, who] [///]
Frg. d
R
x+1A man, who is [///]
x+2A man, who drinks [///]
x+3A man, who is a bald one [///]
x+4A man, who eats bread [///]
P_29009-Fr-a-d_R_001
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P_29009-Fr-a-d_V_001
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Places (read out from edition)
  • Sꜣ.wtj (places.xml#s138)
  • Nḫb (places.xml#s139)
  • Bꜣ.t (places.xml#s140)
  • ꜣbw (places.xml#s3)
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    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    26th dynasty paleography (According to: Quack, Traumbücher, 100);

     

    Pictures

    P_29009-Fr-a-d_R_001
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    P_29009-Fr-a-d_V_001
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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 310597
    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 310597 (= Pap. Berlin P. 29009), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.