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Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 402

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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/AM x 402
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Comments on Inventory P. 23157
Publication Status unpublished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
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
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 1906 and 1907
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Harold I. Bell
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Criteria for Dating scholarly deduction
Rotation around horizontal axis (top to bottom)
Range of Preservation incomplete
Mounting paper
Comments on Object The fragment contains a horizontal fold line. The pieces above and below the fold are nearly symetrical. It seems this may have been a letter (or less likely a contract)

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (verso) and perpendicular (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting The kaph (כ) on the verso is not a common form.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2 3
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Papyrus Fragment
Text Types
  • documentary | order to arrest
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1מנ
2זי
V
vso 1לכ
vso 2
vso 3בר
vso 4
R
[] []
1[]from[]
2[]which[]
V
vso 1[to ]you []
vso 2[] []
vso 3[]son of ??[]
vso 4[]????[]
P_B-AM_x_Folder_11_R_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_11_R_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_11_V_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_11_V_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
-525 BCE -399 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_B-AM_x_Folder_11_R_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_11_R_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_11_V_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_11_V_0
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 311868
last Change 29.07.2022
Author James D. Moore
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 311868 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 402), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.