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Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 409

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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 409
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Publication Status unpublished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 round vertical axis (side to side)
Range of Preservation incomplete
Mounting kept in paper folders
Comments on Object Belongs to Ahiqar, either an indirect join onto plate A or to a missing column (see Moore, "Literary Depictions"). Palimpsest on the recto and verso.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (recto) and perpendicular (verso)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting Literary hand.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 1 : 2 0 : 3
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Papyrus Fragment
Text Types
  • documentary | account | horizontal format
  • literary | narrative | prose
Summary of Content Contains a reference to the location at which Ahiqar the counselor of Assyrian and his successor Nadin worked, the house of the seal(-bearer).
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Comment on Gender Only males are known to have held the position of seal-bearer in Neo-Assyrian times (i.e. the setting of the narrative) and in Persian times (i.e. the period in which the manuscript was copied).
Religion Polytheism (other)
Comment on Religion Ahiqar represents a blending of cultures. Few references the Syrian religion survives in the manuscript (and currently only in the proverbs). But its existance in Egypt suggests a growing political syncretism of meta narratives.

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1בבית עזק ת ה
R
{Recto Palimpsest}
1א
2
3

V
{Verso Palimpsest}
vso 1
vso 2
vso 3
R
1[in the hou]se of the seal(-bearer)[ of (?)]
R
{Recto Palimsest}
1[ ]ˀ[]
2[]????[]
3[]??[ ]
V
{Verso Palimpsest}
vso 1[]????[]
vso 2[]?????[]
vso 3[ ]?[]
P_B-AM_x_Folder_12_R_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_12_R_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_12_V_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_12_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_12_R_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_12_R_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_12_V_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_12_V_0
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 311875
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 311875 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 409), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.