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Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 59 a

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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 59 a
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Publication Status unpublished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
Rotation round vertical axis (side to side)
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation one small fragment whose margins are damaged

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (recto) and perpendicular (verso)
Inks and Pigments type unclear monochrome
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) few signs of the end of two lines; 2 lines of text preserved with a vertical column-line at the left side of the line, along with blank space behind. Surface: blurred and a bit rubbed-off. Verso: Two lines of text in demotic
Script, Primary Demotic
Language, Primary Demotic
Comments on Handwriting broad, flat signs
Comments on Text Layout column line on the recto - Demotic: verso
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+2+y x+2+y
Height of Line / Letter 0.75 cm 0.5 cm

 

Text Content

Modern Title papyrus fragment of unclear content
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content The Demotic fragment is unreadable due to the fragmentary condition.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Bilingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R

R

BH x 59 a-dd_R_001
Reserved Copyright
BH x 59 a-dd_V_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
19900 man Khnum חנומ / חנמ Aramaic, Imperial

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late period - Early Ptolemaic dynasty -664 BCE -222 BCE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

BH x 59 a-dd_R_001
Reserved Copyright
BH x 59 a-dd_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 312593
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel; Jan Moje (Demotic)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 312593 (= Pap. Berlin P. B/H x 59 a), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel; Jan Moje (Demotic).