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Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 609 g

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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 609 g
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned
Publication Status unpublished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
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1906 and 1907
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
Rotation around horizontal axis (top to bottom)
Range of Preservation incomplete
Mounting kept in paper folders
Comments on Object Because the object has been flipped top to bottom, it is likely that the recto is transversa charta. The papyrus is high quality and there are no sheet-joins to help determine recto and verso. There are illegible traces of a palimpsest recto and verso.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (verso) and perpendicular (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Script, additional A (not identified)
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting There is some doubt that this is Aramaic, but it likely is.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 : 3 2 : 1
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Papyrus Fragment
Text Types
  • documentary | order to arrest
Religion unknown
Religion, further unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1
2י

V
vso 1
vso 2 ז 1
vso 3
R
1[]???[]
2[]?y?[]
V
vso 1[]??[]
vso 2[]?{z|1} []
vso 3[]??[]
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Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 312242
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 312242 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 609 g), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.