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Pap. Berlin P. 14939

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 14939
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned
Publication Status unpublished

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]
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution excavation finds

Object

Object Type papyrus
Rotation round vertical axis (side to side)
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation - eight fragments without directs joins - holes and breaks - the object consists of Pap. Berlin P. 14460b, 23064a and b, P 23065-67, P 23084, 23085a and b, and P 23208 (here Frg. 8) (According to the inventory book).

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) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Frg. 3 unf 5: the end of a total of 4 columns
Script, Primary Late Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout - margin lines - guiding lines - The lengths of the lines are not equal. - Recto von Frg. 8: unbeschriftet, vermutlich guiding lines
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines Frg. 1: x+11+y Frg. 2: x+12+y Frg. 3: col. x+I: x+6 col. x+II: x+11 Frg. 4: col. x+I: x+8+y col. x+ Frg. 1: x+9+y Frg. 2: x+9+y Frg. 3: 17+y Frg. 4: x+7+y Frg. 5: x+8+y Frg. 6: x+5+y Frg. 7: x+3+y Frg
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Probably a Fragment of the Book of Temple
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content Probably a fragment of the Book of Temple, judged by content and writing ductus.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

P_14939_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_14939_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 311086
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Verena Lepper, Daniela C. Härtel
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 311086 (= Pap. Berlin P. 14939), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper, Daniela C. Härtel.