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Ostr. Berlin P. 12622

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12622
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution partage
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty:
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Borchardt, Ludwig
Certainty:

Object

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation There is a broken off section in the lower left part.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The ending of the last line is broken off.
Script, Primary Late Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Specialities in Writing Direction The reading direction of the left-justified text is from right to left.
Comments on Handwriting unpracticed handwriting (According to: Fischer-Elfert, Magika Hieratika (2015), 333)
Comments on Text Layout All lines are slightly arched and adapted to the outline shape of the potsherd. The text covers nearly the entire surface of the potsherd and maintains a consistent distance (approx. 5mm) to the left edge. In the first part of the lines, some of the signs are written closely together.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title spell against demons in the style of BD chapter 151
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian | magical
Summary of Content copy of a spell against different demons in the style of Book of the Dead chapter 151 a variant of Pap. Leiden I 358, Pap. DeM 38 and Pap. Hannover 1976.60a1 (According to: Fischer-Elfert, Magika Hieratika (2015), 333)
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Comment on Gender The formula shows that this spell was written for a man.
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures


convex


x+1j spḥ.w nn spḥ=k mn msı͗.n mn.t j
x+2ꜥwꜣ.y nn ꜥwꜣy=k r=f j
x+3šdı͗ .w ḥ ꜣ .tjw nn šdı͗=k ḥ ꜣ .tj=f j
x+4sḫm nn sḫm=k m ꜥ.t nb.t n.tj jm ntf tꜣ
x+5ẖꜣ.t ꜥꜣ.t jwt.t tp pꜣ sꜥḥ šps
x+6jwt.t ḥr=f pꜣ kꜣ mwt.wt pnꜥ jnm
x+7pꜣ sj sgr r nḥḥ ntf
x+8knm.tj sḏr ḥr psḏ=f
convex
x+1Oh you who lassoes! You will not lasso NN, born of NN. Oh you
x+2who robs! You will not rob him. Oh you
x+3who takes away hearts! You will not take away his heart. Oh you
x+4who has power! You will not have power over every body part which is there. He is the
x+5great corpse without head, the noble mummy
x+6without his face, the dead bull who reverses the skin color,
x+7the man who is silent for eternity, He is
x+8the dark one who lies on [|his back.|] [///]
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Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
-30 BCE 313 CE ;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 311053
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 311053 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12622), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.