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Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 8

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (temporary no.)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 8
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status unpublished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]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non
between 17 11 1907 and 19 11 1907
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution partage
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Harold I. Bell
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation one narrow fragment whose margins are damaged

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Inks and Pigments type unclear polychrome black and red
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) - only few signs of five lines - partly rubbed off
Script, Primary Late Hieratic
Language, Primary pre-Coptic Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout rubrum in line 4
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+5+y
Height of Line / Letter ca. 0.5 cm

 

Text Content

Modern Title papyrus fragments of unclear content
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian | magical
Summary of Content It likely that the text is magical due to the rubrum rꜣ "spell".
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
x+1
x+3
x+1
x+4 rꜣ
x+5
R
x+1[///]
x+2[///]
x+3[///]
x+4[///] spell [///]
x+5[///]
P._Berlin_BxH_8_R_001
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P._Berlin_BxH_8_V_001
Reserved Copyright
P._Berlin_BxH_1-17 zu
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P._Berlin_BxH_1-17 zu
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Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

P._Berlin_BxH_8_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P._Berlin_BxH_8_V_001
Reserved Copyright
P._Berlin_BxH_1-17 zu
Reserved Copyright
P._Berlin_BxH_1-17 zu
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 311338
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 311338 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 8), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.