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Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 1061

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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 1061
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Comments on Inventory metal box 118, hieratic paper box 15_118
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine / Syene () [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District unknown () [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty:
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non
between 2 11 1907 and 11 11 1907
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt unknown () [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution excavation finds
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 2 11 1907 and 11 11 1907
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
Mounting kept in paper folders

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Inks and Pigments type unclear polychrome black and red
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) few signs and ink traces
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting Very thin sign height, rather thin stroke.
Comments on Text Layout first preserved line is tinted in red (rubrum)
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+3+y
Line Lenght (in mm) 17
Height of Line / Letter ca 5 mm

 

Text Content

Modern Title fragmentary text with astronomical/sky-concerning content
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian
  • religious-literary | polytheistic Egyptian
  • scientific | astronomy
  • scientific | scientific | astrology
Summary of Content Fragmentary text with the mention of stars and bones(?). The content has a sky-concerning, maybe astronomical, context.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
x+1 jrj
x+2 psḏ(?) sbꜣ(?)
x+3 ptr(?) qs(?)
R
x+1[...] do [...]
x+2[...] stars shine [...]
x+3[...] look bone(s?)[...]
P_Eleph_BH_1061_R_001
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P_Eleph_BH_1061_R_002
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P_Eleph_BH_1061_V_001
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P_Eleph_BH_1061_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_1061_R_001
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P_Eleph_BH_1061_R_002
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P_Eleph_BH_1061_V_001
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P_Eleph_BH_1061_V_002
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 311855
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 311855 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 1061), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.