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Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 20 a

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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 20 a
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Publication Status unpublished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
Comments on Object recto: surface damaged verso: very rubbed-off surface

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) few signs of two lines and few signs on the verso
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting recto: writing with only a small range of sign-width verso: flat and broad; different hand as on recto
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+2+y x+3+y
Height of Line / Letter 0.5 cm

 

Text Content

Modern Title uncertain content but with mentioning of "live" and "gods"
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious-literary | polytheistic Egyptian
Summary of Content unknown due to fragmentary condition; but the mentioning of "live" and "gods" points to something ritual or funerary
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
x+1 ꜥnḫ
x+2 nḏr.w
V
1Only ink traces are preserved.


1 Only ink traces are preserved.
R
x+1[///] live/life [///]
x+2[///] gods [///]
20_R_001
Reserved Copyright
20v_V_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

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

20_R_001
Reserved Copyright
20v_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 312039
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 312039 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 20 a), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.