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Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 1051

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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 1051
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Publication Status	unpublished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	uncertain
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	one narrow fragment whose margins are damaged
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 and ink traces
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting	A rather thin hand, signs are a bit blurred. The form of the sign "f" is rather characteristic and recognizable
Comments on Text Layout	the line lengths are different because line x+4 seems to end where line x+1-3 are still in the middle of words.
Existing Pictorial Elements	--
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+6+y
Height of Line / Letter	ca 4 mm

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Fragmentary text with uncertain content, possibly medical or magical
Text Types	religious | polytheistic Egyptian | magical religious-literary | polytheistic Egyptian scientific | medicine
Summary of Content	Content unclear due to fragmentary condition; regarding the mention of "arms" (two times) and "beneath him" (also two times in different lines), it could be a medical oder magical text, but this is, of course, uncertain.
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Comment on Gender	unknown male person is mentioned
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

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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;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	311845
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 311845 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 1051), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.