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Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 18 k

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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 k
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Publication Status unpublished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 from the lower part of the papyrus roll

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) few signs of the last line of a column, together with part of the blank space below.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting very clear script, with almost no downstrokes
Comments on Text Layout large uninscribed lower margin
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+1
Height of Line / Letter ca. 0.75 cm

 

Text Content

Modern Title unclear content, probably ritual or funerary
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian | ritual
  • religious-literary | polytheistic Egyptian
Summary of Content unknown; because of the mentioning of "ba" it is possible that it is a ritual or funerary text. x+1: bꜣ=k m-ḫt "your ba (is?) behind"
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
B/H x 5
R
x+1
x+2=k ḏd ꜣs.t
x+3 ꜥb.yt
x+4
B/H x 18c
R
x+1 r jb
x+2 ꜥḥ.t
B/H x 18k
R
x+1 bꜣ=k m-ḫt
B/H x 5
R
x+1[///]
x+2[///] your. Isis spoke [///]
x+3[///]
x+4[///]
B/H x 18c
R
x+1[///] to your heart [///]
x+2[///] palace [///]
B/H x 18k
R
x+1[///] your Ba is(?) behind [///]
18k_R_001
Reserved Copyright
18vk_V_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

18k_R_001
Reserved Copyright
18vk_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 312012
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 312012 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 18 k), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.