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Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 428

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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/AM x 428
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Comments on Inventory P. 23148
Publication Status unpublished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) Harold I. Bell
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Criteria for Dating scholarly deduction
Range of Preservation incomplete

Text Basic Information

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

 

Text Content

Modern Title Papyrus Fragment
Text Types
  • documentary | order to arrest
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1[]?[]
2[]
3[]yh []
4[]? 1 bronze object []
5[]?[] 20 20 1 []
P_B-AM_x_Folder_17_R_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_17_R_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_17_V_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_17_V_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
-399 BCE Scholarly deduction;

 

Pictures

P_B-AM_x_Folder_17_R_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_17_R_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_17_V_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_17_V_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
B-AM_Folder_17_R_001
CC-BY-NC-SA
B-AM_Folder_17v_V_001
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

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.