Ostr. Berlin P. 12622

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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

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

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

Modern Title	spell against demons in the style of BD chapter 151
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
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)

Transcription

Translation

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x+1	j spḥ.w nn spḥ=k mn msı͗.n mn.t j
x+2	ꜥwꜣ.y nn ꜥwꜣy=k r=f j
x+3	šdı͗ .w ḥ ꜣ .tjw nn šdı͗=k ḥ ꜣ .tj=f j
x+4	sḫm nn sḫm=k m ꜥ.t nb.t n.tj jm ntf tꜣ
x+5	ẖꜣ.t ꜥꜣ.t jwt.t tp pꜣ sꜥḥ šps
x+6	jwt.t ḥr=f pꜣ kꜣ mwt.wt pnꜥ jnm
x+7	pꜣ sj sgr r nḥḥ ntf
x+8	knm.tj sḏr ḥr psḏ=f

convex

x+1	Oh you who lassoes! You will not lasso NN, born of NN. Oh you
x+2	who robs! You will not rob him. Oh you
x+3	who takes away hearts! You will not take away his heart. Oh you
x+4	who has power! You will not have power over every body part which is there. He is the
x+5	great corpse without head, the noble mummy
x+6	without his face, the dead bull who reverses the skin color,
x+7	the man who is silent for eternity, He is
x+8	the dark one who lies on [\|his back.\|] [///]

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

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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.