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Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 488

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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 488
Current Location magazine | papyrus depository
Comments on Inventory P. 23963 a + b
Publication Status unpublished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 paper
Comments on Object The fragment is likely the right upper edge of the beginning of a contract.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) perpendicular (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 1 0
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
B/AM x 488 (+) B/AM x 491
R
1ב 𐡛𐡘𐡘𐡘 𐡘𐡘 ל... שנת # דריאוש
2מלכא אמר PN...
R
1On the 15th(–19th) of[... year # of Da]rîˀûš
2[the king PN said, ...]
P_B-AM_x_Folder_29_R_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_29_R_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_29_V_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_29_V_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

P_B-AM_x_Folder_29_R_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_29_R_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_29_V_0
CC-BY-NC-SA
P_B-AM_x_Folder_29_V_0
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 312334
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 312334 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/AM x 488), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.