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Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 1047

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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 1047
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Publication Status unpublished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
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 10 2 1907 and
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Harold I. Bell
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Rotation around horizontal axis (top to bottom)
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/verso
Inks and Pigments carbon ink polychrome black and red
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Recto: few signs and ink traces from the last six lines of a column Verso: few signs and ink traces
Script, Primary Hieratic
Script, additional A Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Language, additional A Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting A rather "round" hand (cf. j and f), clear writing, rather flat signs.
Comments on Text Layout Demotic: verso rubrum: recto
Existing Pictorial Elements --
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+6 x+4+y
Height of Line / Letter ca. 0.5 cm

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragmentary text with uncertain content
Text Types
  • religious-literary | polytheistic Egyptian
Summary of Content fragmentary text, content unknown due to fragmentary condition. On the verso, traces of Demotic signs are visible, but reading uncelar due to the fragmentary condition.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: unknown)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
x+1
x+2jjtw
x+3 nw
x+4ꜣḥw
x+5 pw/stw
x+6 [n]fr(?) šd
R
x+1[...] .?. [...]
x+2[...] .?. [...]
x+3[...] of(pl.) [...]
x+4[...] .?. [...]
x+5[...] is it/.?. [...]
x+6[...] beautiful. Take [...]
P_Eleph_BH_1047_R_001
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P_Eleph_BH_1047_R_002
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P_Eleph_BH_1047_V_001
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P_Eleph_BH_1047_V_002
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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_1047_R_001
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P_Eleph_BH_1047_R_002
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P_Eleph_BH_1047_V_001
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P_Eleph_BH_1047_V_002
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 311841
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Martina Grünhagen, Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel (Hieratic); Jan Moje (Demotic)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 311841 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 1047), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen, Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel (Hieratic); Jan Moje (Demotic).