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Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 18 c

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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 18 c
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Publication Status unpublished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 archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non		 between 17 11 1907 and 19 11 1907
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 partage
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
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation one small fragment whose margins are damaged

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) only few signs of two lines
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting broad, flat script
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+2+y
Height of Line / Letter ca. 0.5 cm

 

Text Content

Modern Title medical-magical text(?)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian | magical
  • scientific | medicine
Summary of Content It is not possible to make a definite statement about the exact content of the text due to its fragmentary state. Probably it is a magical-medical text because of the mention of "heart".
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
B/H x 18c
R
x+1m(?) r ḥꜣtj
x+2jw ꜥḥ.t
B/H x 18c
R
x+1[///] to the heart [///]
x+2[///] and chamber [///]
18c_R_001
Reserved Copyright
18vc_R_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
26th dynasty palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

18c_R_001
Reserved Copyright
18vc_R_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 312007
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Verena Lepper; Martina Grünhagen; Daniela C. Härtel
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 312007 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 18 c), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Martina Grünhagen; Daniela C. Härtel.