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Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 997

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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 997
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Publication Status unpublished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
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation one small fragment whose margins are damaged

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) ink traces; faded text
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting only fragments of signs preserved; possibly belonging to Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 998
Comments on Text Layout one red, one black line of text
Existing Pictorial Elements --
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+3+y
Height of Line / Letter ca. 0.5 cm

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragmentary text with uncertain content
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious-literary | polytheistic Egyptian
Summary of Content unknown due to fragmentary condition
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

 

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_997_R_001
Reserved Copyright
P_Eleph_BH_997_R_002
Reserved Copyright
P_Eleph_BH_997_V_001
Reserved Copyright
P_Eleph_BH_997_V_002
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 311791
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 311791 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 997), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.