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Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 494

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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/AM x 494
Current Location	magazine | papyrus depository
Comments on Inventory	Folder missing letter "y." Inventory error. All fragments accounted for.
Publication Status	unpublished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
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	excavation finds
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
Criteria for Dating	Scholarly deduction
Range of Preservation	incomplete
Mounting	kept in paper folders
Comments on Object	illegible = ink or letter traces, but unable to decide on more than two letter options. a: illegible. b: illegible. c: illegible. d: illegible. f: illegible. g: illegible. h: illegible. j: illegible. k: illegible. l: possible palimpsest on verso (?); traces of ancient residue (glue ?) on verso. m: literary hand; dark recto; possible sheet-join. n: illegible. o: illegible; palimpsest on verso. p: illegible; palimpsest on verso (?). q: illegible. r: illegible. s: perhaps two letters on recto; illegible. t: literary hand (?). u: palimpsest on verso (?). v: illegible. w: dark red. x: literary hand; early modern repair take on verso; ink on verso. z: illegible. aa: literary hand (?). bb: clear marks, but illegible; sheet join, or fragments stacked on top of each other. cc: illegible. dd: demotic (?) ee: dark red. gg: illegible. hh: marks and recto and verso; possible palimpsest on recto; literary hand; illegible. jj: dark papyrus; modern repair tape on verso; dark black ink; illegible. kk: two perhaps three lines of text on recto; illegible; redish papyrus; ink is faded, grayish. ll: illegible. mm: illegible nn: redish; illegible. pp: literary hand. qq: literary hand. ss: illegible; possible palimspest on verso. tt: illegible; redish papyrus. vv: opistograph (turned side-to-side); verso illegible. ww: illegible; redish papyrus. xx: traces of ink on verso. yy: traces of ink on verso; illegible verso; recto illegible. zz: illegible. aaa: illegbile; redish papyrus. fff: illegible ggg: literary hand; trace of ink on verso. kkk: illegible recto. lll: illegible recto. mmm: traces of illegible text on verso. nnn: illegible recto and traces of ink on verso. ooo: illegible recto; missing verso (?). ppp: traces of ink on verso. qqq: recto illegible; verso blank. rrr: recto illegible; verso blank. sss: traces of palimpsest on verso; recto illegible. uuu: ink on both sides; recto and verso uncertain, transversa charta (?). vvv: ink on both sides; recto and verso uncertain, transversa charta (?).

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	(varia)
Text-Localization, Addendum	Ink on recto and verso of a-h
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	(other)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting	Variety of hands. Some in the literary hand of Darius or Ahiqar.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	0-2	0-2
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Papyrus Fragment
Text Types	documentary | order to arrest
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				-399 BCE	Scholarly deduction;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	312223
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	James D. Moore
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 312223 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 494 ), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.