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Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 40 o

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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 40 o
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Publication Status unpublished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
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 upper part of the papyrus
Mounting kept in paper folders

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel
Inks and Pigments type unclear monochrome red
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) one word of the first line of a column
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting clear writing, rather flat signs
Comments on Text Layout large uninscribed upper margin, the preserved word is written in red
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 1+y
Height of Line / Letter 0.5 cm

 

Text Content

Modern Title ritual , medical-magical or funerary text
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian | magical
Summary of Content The classification of the text type is based on the preserved part of the rubrum: mdw.w "words" belongs likely to the characteristic rubrum ḏd mdw.w "to recite" of magical texts. Preserved is probably a part of a metatext which introducts words that are to be spoken. Therefore, it might be a ritual/medical-magical or funerary text.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1 mdw.w
R
1[///] words [///]
P._Berlin_BxH_40o_R_00
Reserved Copyright
P._Berlin_BxH_40o_V_00
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

P._Berlin_BxH_40o_R_00
Reserved Copyright
P._Berlin_BxH_40o_V_00
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 312085
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 312085 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 40 o), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.