Home Project Search Objects Places Persons & Deities  
 

Search in Objects


(submit with enter)

 

Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 22

TEI-XML-File: https://p612399.webspaceconfig.de/xml/elephantine_erc_db_311352.tei.xml

Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (temporary no.)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 22
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Publication Status unpublished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 small 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) Fragment which preserves the right end of one column and the left part of another. Both columns are divided by a vertical stroke. There are 4 lines of text presrved from the right column, the preserved part of the left column is empty. Verso: Only traces of a few signs in one line, most of the verso is empty.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting Hand: broad, but clear. almost no downstrokes.
Comments on Text Layout margin line
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+4+y 1
Height of Line / Letter ca. 0.5 cm

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragment
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. "Your heart" is mentioned in the text. A medical content is possible but not necessarily correct.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late period - Early Ptolemaic dynasty -664 BCE -222 BCE paleography;

 

Pictures

P._Berlin_BxH_22_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P._Berlin_BxH_22_V_001
Reserved Copyright
P._Berlin_BxH_21-39 zu
Reserved Copyright
P._Berlin_BxH_21-39 zu
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 311352
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 311352 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 22), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.