Pap. Berlin P. 10523

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 10523
Current Location	magazine \| papyrus depository
Comments on Inventory	According to the entries of the inventory book, four tall frames (105:280mm), 13 small frames and four small boxes actually belong to this inventory number. (According to: Burkard & Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 70) Only the fragments of the frame shown here have been located at the moment. Burkard & Fischer-Elfert, ibid., 70 identified about 80 fragments. None of the fragments in this frame correspond to any of the fragments published by Möller, Hieratische Papyrus (1911) under the inventory number 10523.
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	published

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	purchase Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Unknown Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Luxor
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	purchase
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1896 and 1896
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Unknown Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Borchardt, Ludwig Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, dark
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Only 25 small fragments without direct joins have been located at the moment.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Only parts of a few columns and lines are preserved. The verso of the fragments is mostly uninscribed.
Script, Primary	Old Hieratic
Language, Primary	Old Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout	The texts are composed in vertical lines (columns). A horizontal black line below the column on the recto of Frg. z is visible. On the recto of Möller, Hieratische Papyrus (1911), Frg. D, 105), a black line separates the columns. The determinative of the noble man after the cartouche has the height of two quadrats (ibid., Frg. Ac. 3). The best preserved fragments which are published by ibid. show that the space between the columns and the width of the quadrats are irregular. In column 4 on the verso of ibid., Frg. Ab+Ad, the scribe did not write two personal names consecutively in the vertical line of text, but rather next to one another horizontally.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Columns	min. x+1+y; max. x+3+y	min. x+1+y; max. x+2+y

Text Content

Ancient Title	Fragments of letters
Ancient Archives	private archive \| family archive of nomarchs
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary
Summary of Content	It is not possible to make a definite statement about the exact content of the fragments due to its fragmentary state. A comparison with other texts from this archive points out that the text type is documentary - probably predominantly fragments of letters.
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Woman Man
Comment on Gender	- letter to a woman (Möller, Hieratische Papyrus (1911), Frg. Ab + Ad) - letter about women (ibid., Frg. BM, 32)
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

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Möller, Frg. D, 105

x+I
x+II	Ppy sꜣ=f ḥsı͗

Möller, Frg. D, 113

x+I

Ppy ꜥnḫ

Möller, Frg. D, 114

x+I	Merı͗-n-Rꜥ

Möller, Frg. Ac, 3

x+I	sw
x+II	Ḥr-bḥd.tj
x+III	wr jꜣ
x+IV	-kꜣ-

Möller, Frg. Aw, 22

x+I	sw 20 ꜣbd 3 ꜣḫ.t

Möller, Frg. Cm, 71

x+I	29 ꜣbd 2 pr.t sw 5

Möller, Frg. Cm, 71

vs. x+I	¹The determinative of the sitting man and plural strokes are visible.
vs. x+II	hbn.t

¹ The determinative of the sitting man and plural strokes are visible.

Möller, Frg. Ab+Ad

x+I	r mꜣꜣ=f w j sꜥnḫ m rd
x+II	pḥ n=ṯ m swt sꜥnḫ m rd
x+III	wḫꜣ w g
x+IV	m

Möller, Frg. Ab+Ad

vs. x+I	ẖr.j-ḥ ꜣ b Sꜣb.n-j
vs. x+II	n=ṯ nn.w Jnı͗- j t=f
vs. x+III	ꜥꜣ jm.j-rꜣ ẖnw sẖꜣ.w ꜥnw jrı͗ n=ṯ r rḏı͗.t
vs. x+IV	-Sbky jm.j-rꜣ sẖꜣ.w n ꜥnw -Šm.t

Möller, Frg. Bm, 32

x+I	¹The sign of the sitting man is visible.
x+II	sn.t Šps.t-nswt ꜣḫ=s rs sẖꜣ.w=k ḥr

¹ The sign of the sitting man is visible.

Möller, Frg. Bm, 32

vs. x+I

ḥr=s jw gr kꜣ.w ḏ.t

Möller, Frg. Bn, 33

x+I	ḫrw jr js jš.wt ¹jḫ.wt n sn=k-jm j ḫ.t sẖꜣ.w=k js

¹ jḫ.wt

Möller, Frg. Bn, 33

vs. x+I

=k nn jr.y

Möller, Frg. Bz

x+I

gbb

Möller, Frg. D, 105

x+I	[///]
x+II	[///] Pep[i] II., his praised son [///]

Möller, Frg. D, 113

x+I	[///] Pepi II., he may live [///]

Möller, Frg. D, 114

x+I	[///] Meren[re] [///]

Möller, Frg. Ac, 3

x+I	[///]
x+II	[///] Horus of Edfou [///]
x+III	[///]
x+IV	[///] [///]-ka-[///] [///]

Möller, Frg. Aw, 22

x+I	[///] day 20 of the third month of the akhet-season [///]

Möller, Frg. Cm, 71

x+I	[///] 29. Second month of the peret-season, day 5+[///] [///]

Möller, Frg. Cm, 71

vs. x+I	[///] -,,- -,,-
vs. x+II	[///] a hbn.t-vessel/ a hbn.t-measure [///]

Möller, Frg. Ab + Ad

x+I	[///] he sees me; to make live [///] on/with the foot [///]
x+II	[///] reach you in [///] on/with the foot [///]
x+III	[///] to get(?) [///]
x+IV	[///]

Möller, Frg. Ab + Ad

vs. x+I	[///] the lector priest Saben-i [///]
vs. x+II	[///] you [///]; Inyotef turns away(?) ¹According to: Hafemann, Ab+Ad (April 2017). [///]
vs. x+III	[///] great one, overseer of the residence, and scribe Anu [///] do/make for you &lt;to> give/cause [///]
vs. x+IV	[///] [///]-Sobek; overseer of [///], the scribe of [///] and Anu [///] [///]-Shemat [///]

¹ According to: Hafemann, Ab+Ad (April 2017).

Möller, Frg. Bm, 32

x+I	[///]
x+II	[///] the sister Shepeset-nesut and Akhes [///] your-sribe ¹I.e. "I". [///]

¹ I.e. "I".

Möller, Frg. Bm, 32

vs. x+I

[///] because of this [///] the bulls of the estate(?) ¹According to: Hafemann, Ab+Ad (April 2017). [///]

¹ According to: Hafemann, Ab+Ad (April 2017).

Möller, Frg. Bn, 33

x+I	[///] the voice. As to the belongings of your son there ¹I. e. "I"., the thing of your-scribe²I.e. "your thing". [///]

¹ I. e. "I".
² I.e. "your thing".

Möller, Frg. Bn, 33

vs. x+I

[///] you/your [///] this that was done [///]

Möller, BZ

x+I	[///] gbb-goose [///]

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
11620	woman	Akhes	ꜣḫ=s	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
06th dynasty				-2347 BCE -2170 BCE	paleography; the mention of Old Kingdom royal names (Merenre, Pepi II.) on other fragments from this archive; Sneferu (4th dynasty) and Sekhemkare (8th dynasty) are also mentioned;

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Literature

DatasetID	400010
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Martina Grünhagen; Matthias Müller; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 400010 (= Pap. Berlin P. 10523), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Matthias Müller; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.