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Pap. Berlin P. 23028.III

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 23028.III
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
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Publication Status unpublished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 excavation or purchase
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution excavation finds

Object

Object Type papyrus | roll
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The papyrus roll is wrapped in linen.
Comments on Object The wrapping in linen seems to be historic, no modern modification. The roll is broken in situ multiple times and consists today of many small fragments. Some fragments could be found outside of the roll which have obviously been fallen out of the wrapping when the roll was handled in the last decades.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Inks and Pigments carbon ink polychrome black and red
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Only the recto is inscribed, on the verso, there are no ink traces of inscription at all.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian, Classical

 

Text Content

Modern Title Papyrus roll with a religious text
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content Religious text, which still needs further investigation. There seems to be at least two different hands, at the moment it is unclear, whether they belong to one manuscript or to two different manuscripts. In preparation for publication by Verena Lepper and Daniela C. Härtel.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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translation example: layer 26
x+1[///] .?. [///]
x+2[///] Šw pw jr ḥqꜣ(?) .?. [///]
x+3[///] .?. jr ntf(?) .?. mḥy[///]
x+4[///] .?. m pr(?).?. Wꜣḏj.t [///]
x+5[///] .?. mꜣꜣ ḥr ḥfꜣw rkrk[///]
x+6[///] ḥfꜣw jr Sḥm(?) .?. [///]
x+7[///] pꜣ(?)[///]
R
translation example: layer 26
x+1[///] .?. [///]
x+2[///] Shu it is. What the ruler(?) of .?. is concerned [///]
x+3[///] .?. What he(?) is concerend: filled [///]
x+4[///] .?. in the house(?) (of?) Wadjet [///]
x+5[///] .?. see with the snake which crawls[///]
x+6[///] snake. What Sekhmet/the might(?) is concerned: .?. (something with dish-determinative) [///]
x+7[///] the(?) [///]
Platte_6_1_R_001
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Platte_6_2_R_001
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Platte_6_3_R_001
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Platte_6_4_R_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
21st dynasty palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

Platte_6_1_R_001
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Platte_6_2_R_001
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Platte_6_3_R_001
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Platte_6_4_R_001
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Platte_6_5_R_001
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Schicht_00_R_001
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Schicht_01_R_001
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Schicht_02_R_001
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Schicht_03_R_001
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Schicht_04_R_001
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Schicht_05_R_001
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Platte_6_5_R_002
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Schicht_06_R_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 312004
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 312004 (= Pap. Berlin P. 23028.III), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.