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Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 55

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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 55
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Publication Status unpublished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 small fragment from the upper part of the papyrus sheet

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) three signs and ink traces of the first two lines of a column are preserved with a large blank space above.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting thin, neat and clear writing, with a rather large range of sign-width.
Comments on Text Layout - upper margin line - large uninscribed upper margin
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2+y
Height of Line / Letter 0.5 cm

 

Text Content

Modern Title papyrus fragment of unclear content
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian
Summary of Content It is not possible to make a definite statement about the exact content of the text due to its fragmentary state. The classification of the text type is based on the preserved parts of a vignette.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
x+1 ꜥpy
x+2
R
x+1 passing(?)
x+2
BH x 55_R_001
Reserved Copyright
BH x 55_V_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

BH x 55_R_001
Reserved Copyright
BH x 55_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 311385
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 311385 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 55), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.