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Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 980

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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 980
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Comments on Inventory metal box 15, hieratic paper box 15_118
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Publication Status unpublished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 10 2 1907 and
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution excavation finds
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Harold I. Bell
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Rotation uncertain
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation one narrow fragment from the lower part of the papyrus
Mounting kept in paper folders

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) few signs from the beginning of the first three lines of a column
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Existing Pictorial Elements --
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3+y
Height of Line / Letter ca. 0.75 cm

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragmentary text with uncertain content, probably ritual
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious-literary | polytheistic Egyptian
Summary of Content unknown due to fragmentary condition. The Two Lands are mentioned, therefore probably a ritual text. The line "every knife and every arrow" show a violent context (war, ritual action etc.).
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1ẖnı͗.t n tꜣ.wj
2 nb swn nb
3
R
1to travel the Two Lands [///]
2every knife every arrow [///]
3[///]
P_Eleph_BH_980_R_001
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P_Eleph_BH_980_R_002
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P_Eleph_BH_980_V_001
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P_Eleph_BH_980_V_002
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Places (read out from edition)
  • tꜣ.wj (places.xml#c1)
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    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Late period - Ptolemaic dynasty -664 BCE -30 BCE paleography;

     

    Pictures

    P_Eleph_BH_980_R_001
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    P_Eleph_BH_980_R_002
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    P_Eleph_BH_980_V_001
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    P_Eleph_BH_980_V_002
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    Literature

    previousely unpublished

     

    DatasetID 311774
    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 311774 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 980), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.