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Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 40 ff

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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 ff
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Publication Status unpublished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 whose margins are damaged
Mounting kept in paper folders

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 end of three lines; surface: rubbed-off and blurred
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting broad and flat signs, but with normal range of stroke-width
Comments on Text Layout The lengths of the lines are not equal.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+3+y
Height of Line / Letter 0.75 cm

 

Text Content

Modern Title Unknown content but possibly ritual or funerary
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • (other)
Summary of Content unknown due to fragmentary condition; but possibly ritual or funerary because of the mention of dead persons in line 2.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
x+1 m
x+2 (pl., dead persons)
x+3 (god's determinative) sšm
R
x+1 in
x+2 - dead persons
x+3 (god) lead
P._Berlin_BxH_40ff_R_0
Reserved Copyright
P._Berlin_BxH_40ff_V_0
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_40ff_R_0
Reserved Copyright
P._Berlin_BxH_40ff_V_0
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 312102
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 312102 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 40 ff), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.