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Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 16

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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 16
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Publication Status unpublished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
Rotation round vertical axis (side to side)
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation one narrow fragment whose margins are damaged

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) few signs of four lines recto: 4 lines preserved; recto: 4 lines of text preserved. Only few signs preserved and very rubbed off.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary pre-Coptic Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting recto: hand a bit blurred, a bit flat. verso: thinner than the recto.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+5+y x+4+y
Height of Line / Letter ca. 0.5 cm ca. 0.5 cm

 

Text Content

Modern Title papyrus fragments of unclear content
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • scientific | medicine
Summary of Content It is not possible to make a definite statement about the exact content of the text due to its fragmentary state.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
x+1
x+2
x+3
x+4
R
x+1[///]
x+2
x+3
x+4
P._Berlin_BxH_16_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P._Berlin_BxH_16_V_001
Reserved Copyright
P._Berlin_BxH_1-17 zu
Reserved Copyright
P._Berlin_BxH_1-17 zu
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period paleography of the Demotic text: Early Roman Period (approx. Augustus-Claudius);

 

Pictures

P._Berlin_BxH_16_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P._Berlin_BxH_16_V_001
Reserved Copyright
P._Berlin_BxH_1-17 zu
Reserved Copyright
P._Berlin_BxH_1-17 zu
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 311346
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 311346 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 16), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.