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Pap. Berlin P. 23870 (vso)

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Metadata

Collection

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

Origin / Provenance

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

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete.

Text Basic Information

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

 

Text Content

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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
V
1r pꜣ ḏw1Perhaps 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

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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1To the mountain(?).
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

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)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period 100 CE 200 CE according to O. Kaper;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

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.