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Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 987

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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 987
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Publication Status unpublished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 Details 113
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 small fragment whose margins are damaged
Mounting kept in paper folders

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Inks and Pigments type unclear monochrome red
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) few signs and ink traces
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+1+y
Height of Line / Letter ?

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragmentary text with uncertain content
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • scientific | medicine
Summary of Content typical phrase of medical texts is preserved
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
x+1 mwt mwt.t m
R
x+1[///] dead man (and) dead woman in [///]
P_Eleph_BH_987_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_Eleph_BH_987_R_002
Reserved Copyright
P_Eleph_BH_987_V_001
Reserved Copyright
P_Eleph_BH_987_V_002
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

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_987_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_Eleph_BH_987_R_002
Reserved Copyright
P_Eleph_BH_987_V_001
Reserved Copyright
P_Eleph_BH_987_V_002
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 311781
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 311781 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 987), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.