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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (temporary no.) |
Inventory Number | Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 428 |
Current Location | magazine | papyrus depository |
Comments on Inventory | P. 23148 |
Publication Status | unpublished |
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) | Harold I. Bell Certainty: high |
Object Type | papyrus |
Criteria for Dating | scholarly deduction |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
Localization of Text on Object | recto | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | perpendicular | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
Script, Primary | Aramaic, Imperial | |
Language, Primary | (not identified) | |
Comments on Handwriting | The letter heth ח is unique. It resembles a ṣade צ. Letters are generally well spaced and the height of the letters are short. | |
Comments on Text Layout | There is a great variation in line length. Perhaps this is a list within a letter or contract (?). | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 5 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter |
Modern Title | Papyrus Fragment |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Unknown. But this is the only mansucript to refer to a bronze object other than TAD C.3.28 a late 3rd century text (TAD 3 p. 73) bought by Sayce at Luxor and thought to come from Kus (Cowley AP p. 190). |
Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: unknown) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||
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RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
-399 BCE | Scholarly deduction; |
DatasetID | 311672 |
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 311672 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 428), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore. |