Home Project Search Objects Places Persons & Deities  
 

Search in Objects


(submit with enter)

 

Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 393 a

TEI-XML-File: https://p612399.webspaceconfig.de/xml/elephantine_erc_db_311616.tei.xml

Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (temporary no.)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 393 a
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Publication Status unpublished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:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution excavation finds
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1906 and 1907
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Erman, Adolf
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Dating between 550 and 399
Criteria for Dating scholarly deduction
Range of Preservation (undecidable)

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel and perpendicular
Inks and Pigments not applicable
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Overwritten text decipherable Palimpsest difficult
Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 1/1 0/2
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Ancient Title ספר מלי אחיקר
Modern Title Ahiqar
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | account
  • documentary | account | horizontal format
  • documentary | administrative document
  • documentary | list
  • documentary | list | product list
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
  • literary
  • literary | biography
  • literary | historic
  • literary | narrative
  • literary | narrative | prose
  • literary | poetry
  • literary | wisdom
  • literary | wisdom | instruction
  • literary | wisdom | proverb(s)
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: unknown)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Child Man
Religion Polytheism (other)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1נמרא
R
1{Recto Palimpsest}
V
1{Verso Palimpsest}
2
R
1[the] leopard
R

{Recto Palimpsest traces}
V
1{Verso Palimpsest traces}
2

P_B-AM_x_Folder_9_R_00
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_9_R_00
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_9_V_00
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_9_V_00
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
525 CE 399 CE Scholarly deduction;

 

Pictures

P_B-AM_x_Folder_9_R_00
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_9_R_00
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_9_V_00
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_9_V_00
CC-BY-NC-SA
B-AM_Folder_9v_V_001
CC-BY-NC-SA
B-AM_Folder_9d_R_001
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 311616
last Change 29.07.2022
Author James D. Moore
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 311616 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 393 a), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.