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Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 18 l

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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 l
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Publication Status unpublished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 narrow 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 are preserved recto: 3 lines of text preserved; verso: 3 lines of text (demotic)
Script, Primary Hieratic
Script, additional A Demotic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Language, additional A Demotic
Comments on Handwriting recto: very broad, flat script surface is very damaged and rubbed off
Comments on Text Layout The Demotic text is on the verso.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+3+y x+3+y
Height of Line / Letter 0.5 cm

 

Text Content

Modern Title unclear content
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content fragmentary text, content unknown due to fragmentary condition. On the verso, traces of Demotic signs are visible, but reading uncelar due to the fragmentary condition.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Bilingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late period - Ptolemaic dynasty -664 BCE -30 BCE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

18l_R_001
Reserved Copyright
18vl_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 312015
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Martina Grünhagen, Verena Lepper, Daniela C. Härtel (Hieratic); Jan Moje (Demotic)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 312015 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 18 l), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen, Verena Lepper, Daniela C. Härtel (Hieratic); Jan Moje (Demotic).