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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. 23870 (vso) |
Current Location | magazine |
Comments on Inventory | |
Publication Status | published |
Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: medium |
Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Discovery | archaeological excavation Certainty: medium |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) Certainty: medium |
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 |
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution | between 1907 and 1908 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) Certainty: medium |
Object Type | papyrus |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete. |
Localization of Text on Object | recto/verso | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (recto) and perpendicular (verso) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Complete. | |
Script, Primary | Late Demotic | |
Script, additional A | Greek | |
Language, Primary | Roman Demotic | |
Language, additional A | Greek, Ancient | |
Comments on Text Layout | Recto: Greek text Verso: One line (Demotic), placed onto the upper part of the sheet. | |
Existing Pictorial Elements | Drawing of sphinx in the lower part of the sheet. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 0 | 1 |
Quantity of Columns | 0 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 30 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 6 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 30 x 6 | 0 |
Modern Title | title(?) to a sketch of a sphinx. |
Ancient Archives | none |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Summary of Content | Possibly mentioning a mountain, or the god Tutu. The latter may fit better the sketch of a sphinx acompagning the text, but all interpretation remains enigmatic. |
Relationship of Texts (bilingual) | The Demotic text seems to be secondary. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Lower Egypt, 14th nome Egypt (Certainty: medium) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||
1 Perhaps this lemma can be connected with the god Tutu,
but this remains still enigmatic: Olaf E. Kaper, "The Egyptian god Tutu:
additions to the catalogue of monuments", in: Chronique d'Égypte 87 (2012),
81 no. X-18 |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
8060 | not applicable | (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) | (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) | (none) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Roman Period | 100 CE 200 CE | according to O. Kaper; |
DatasetID | 311050 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 144450 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 311050 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23870 (vso)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |