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Pap. Elephantine, excavation DAIK no. Reg. 17224 W

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Pap. Elephantine, excavation DAIK no. Reg. 17224 W
Publication Number	P.Eleph. DAIK 4 = GMP II 11 lit
Current Location	magazine Assuan
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)	Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Naphtali Lewis Certainty:

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Dating	between -225 and -175
Criteria for Dating	palaeography
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	joined of several fragments broken at right and bottom

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	broken at right and bottom
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Modern Title	list of pharmaceutical products or medical recipe
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	scientific scientific | medicine scientific | medicine | prescription
Summary of Content	List of ingredients or unprefaced table of medicinal substances with amounts, maybe a itemized list of ingredients of a therapeutic prescription. The presence of substances having emollient and warming properties next to astringent and cleansing items may suggests the recipe could produce a cicatrizing plaster for spreading ulcers. datable to the late third century BC according to Luiselli (contra Wagner, second century BC).
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language

 

Text

 

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				-225 BCE -175 BCE	palaeographical dating;

 

Literature

• Andorlini, Isabella & Luiselli, Raffaele, Greek Medical Papyri II (2009). (no. 11, p. 169-174)
• Rupprecht, Hans-Albert & Worp, Klaas A. & Hoogendijk, Francisca A.J., BL 12: Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Band XII (2009). (67)
• Wagner, Guy, Les Papyrus et les Ostraca grecs d'Éléphantine (P. et O. Eleph. DAIK). (IV)

 

DatasetID	310895
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	67945
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;IV
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310895 (= Pap. Elephantine, excavation DAIK no. Reg. 17224 W), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.