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Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 475

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Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (temporary no.)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 475
Current Location	magazine | papyrus depository
Comments on Inventory	P. 23162 + P. 23186 + P. 23188
Publication Status	unpublished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
Range of Preservation	incomplete
Mounting	kept in paper folders
Comments on Object	a: Transversa charta, flipped top to bottom. b: Recto badly defaced. c: Unable to determine direction of rotation. d: Rotated side-to-side. e: Document likely transversa charta, and thus recto and verso in the photos are switched. f: Verso contains either defaced text or unknown residue; undecipherable. g: Difficult to determine orientation. Perhaps,analyzed as though it were rotated from side-to-side. h: Visible palimpsest recto and verso. No overwritten text. Rotated side-to-side. j: Difficult to determine rotation of manuscript. k: Fragment contains traces of ink, recto and verso, but is too defaced to interpret. m: Mark or stain on verso. n: Dark horizontal stain across upper edge of recto. o: Possible palmipsest on verso. Difficult to determine recto and verso. p: Marks of ink on verso. Perhaps palimpsest on verso. q: Photos missing verso. t: Difficult to determine orientation of fragment. Transversa charta (?). u: Possible traces of palimpsest, recto and verso. v: Possible traces of palimpsest, recto and verso. w: No traces of ink. Ancient glue on verso (?). x: Upside down in photo. y: Unable to determine orietnation of fragment with certainty. z: Photo upside down.Transversa charta. bb: Traces of ink and possible stains, but the strokes on recto are too difficult to decipher in present photographs. cc: Difficult to determine orientation of fragment with certainty. dd: Illegible traces of ink. ee: Illegible traces of palimpsest, recto and verso. ff: Trace of mark or palimpsest on verso. gg: Trace of mark on verso. hh: Transversa charta. jj: Illegible palimpsest on verso. Perhaps rotated at 90 degrees. kk: Transversa charta. ll: Transversa charta. mm: Transversal charta. nn: Possibly transversa charta. oo: Possible illegible traces of a palimpsest, recto and verso. pp: Uncertain in photo if fragment is transversa charta. rr: Fragment upside down in photo. Transversa charta. ss: Reading is highly uncertain. tt: Sheet join. Traces of palimpsest verso, and perhaps verso. uu: Illegible traces of palimpsest on recto and perhaps verso. vv: Traces of palimpsest on verso. yy: Orientation of document uncertain. Appears to be transversa charta. ccc: Possible traces of (palimpsest ?) ink on verso. Transversa charta. ddd: Illegible traces of ink on verso. jjj: Illegible palimpsest recto kkk: Illegible palimpsest recto and verso. lll: Traces of a palimpsest on recto written with at thick pointed stylus, but uncertain on orientation and reading of palimpsest. mmm: Illegible traces of palimpsest recto and verso. nnn: Illegible traces of palimpsest recto and verso. Sheet-join. ooo: Illegible traces of palimpsest recto and verso. ppp: Illegible traces of palimpsest recto and verso. qqq: Unable to determine fragment orientation. rrr: Unable to determine fragment orientation with certainty. Traces of possible palimpsest on recto and verso. sss: Visible strokes of a palimpsest on recto only. ttt: Unable to determine fragment orientation with certainty. Possible ink traces on verso.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	(varia)
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	(other)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting	n: Cursive hand. gg: Cursive tale on taw ת. Large print. hh: Large print. pp: Large print. uu: Literary hand. aaa: Literary hand. ddd: Cursive hand. sss: Literary hand.

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Papyrus Fragment
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	unknown

 

Text

 

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				-525 BCE -399 BCE	;

 

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Literature

• Moore, James D., New Aramaic Papyri in Berlin. (1.1.17+1.3.11+1.3.12+1.3.13)

 

DatasetID	312253
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 312253 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 475 ), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.