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Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 18 e

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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 e
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Publication Status unpublished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
Rotation round vertical axis (side to side)
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation one small fragment whose margins are damaged

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel and perpendicular
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) only few signs of two lines and ink traces of two other lines are preserved Verso: three lines of demotic text
Script, Primary Late Hieratic
Script, additional A Demotic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Language, additional A Demotic
Comments on Handwriting thin script with almost nop range in sign width, very round
Comments on Text Layout The Demotic text is on the verso.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+4+y x+2+y
Height of Line / Letter ca. 0.5 cm 0.5 cm

 

Text Content

Modern Title medical-magical text(?)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • scientific | medicine
Summary of Content unknown, due to fragmentary condition. Perhaps it is a medical-magical text because of the mentioning of "you drink"
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
x+11The name of a body part is missing due to the determinative Gardiner Sign F51.=k n
x+2 swr=k 2Only the determinatives are preserved.
x+3

1 The name of a body part is missing due to the determinative Gardiner Sign F51.
2 Only the determinatives are preserved.
R
x+1[///] your [///] of [///]
x+2[///] you shall drink [///]
x+3[///]
18e_R_001
Reserved Copyright
18ve_V_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

18e_R_001
Reserved Copyright
18ve_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 312008
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 312008 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 18 e), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.