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Pap. Berlin P. 13270

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 13270
Publication Number BKT V.2
Current Location exhibition | Neues Museum, Berlin
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty:
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution partage
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1906 and 1906

Object

Object Type papyrus
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 251 mm | 335 mm | mm
Dating between -299 and -200
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation broken at upper right corner

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) upper right corner broken
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting ptolemaic literary hand
Comments on Text Layout 22 lines, other side uninscribed
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 22
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Symposiastic songs
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • literary
  • literary | poetry
Summary of Content Private copy of a symposiastic ὑπόμνημα (Memorandum) or song book. ll. 1–11: skolia ll. 12–21:elegy three lines on the margin (titles or notes)
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1αι θυγάτη
2πλετα σ ῖτα φέρων
3α μοι τεμένη βων
4νκέρασον Χαρίτων κρατῆρα ἐπιστεφέα κρύφιον τε πρόπινε
5λόγον. σήμαινε, ὅτι παρθένων ἀπείροσι πλέξομεν ὕμνοις
6τὰν δορὶ σώματι κειραμέναν Τροίαν κάτα τὸν παρὰ ναυσὶν ἀειμνάστοις ἁλόντα
7Μοῦσαι1written on left margin, probably title of the first poem (lines 1-3)νυκτιβάταν σκολοπόν. ω μουσᾶν ἀ γανόμματε μᾶτερ συνεπίσπεο σῶν τέκνων
8Εὐφώρατος2written on left margin, probably title of the second poem (lines 4-7) ωι ωι ἄρτι βρύουϲαν ἀοιδὰν πρωτοπαγεῖ σοφίαι διαποικίλον ἐκφέρομεν.
9Μνημοσύνη3written on left margin, probably title of the third poem (lines 7-11)νῆά τοι τέγξαν Ἀχελώιου δρόσοι. παῦε παραπροιών, ὑφίει πόδα, λῦε ανοῦ
10πτέρυγας, τάχος ἵεσο λεπτολίθων ἐπ' ἀγῶν· :εὖ : καθόρα πέλαγος, παρὰ γᾶν
11ἔκφευγε νότου χαλεπὰν φοβερὰν διαποντοπλανῆ μανίαν.
124beginning of a new poem, marked by paragraphosχαίρετε συμπόται ἄνδρες ὁμήλικες, ἐξ ἀγαθοῦ γὰρ
13ἀρξάμενος τελέω τὸν λόγον ες ἀγαθόν.
14χρὴ δ', ὅταν εἰς τοιοῦτο συνέλθωμεν

1 written on left margin, probably title of the first poem (lines 1-3)
2 written on left margin, probably title of the second poem (lines 4-7)
3 written on left margin, probably title of the third poem (lines 7-11)
4 beginning of a new poem, marked by paragraphos
φίλοι ἄνδρες
15πρᾶγμα, γελᾶν παίζειν χρησαμένους ἀρετῆι
16ἥδεσθαί τε συνόντας ἐς ἀλλήλους τε φλυαρεῖν
17καὶ σκώπτειν τοιαῦτα, οἵα γέλωτα φέρειν.
18ἡ δὲ σπουδὴ ἑπέσθω ἀκούωμέν τε λγόντων
19ἐμ μέρει· ἥδ' ἀρετὴ συμποσίου πέλεται.
20τοῦ δὲ προταρχοῦντος τησπειθώμεθα· ταῦτα γὰρ ἔστιν
21ἔργ' ἀνδρῶν ἀγαθῶν εὐλογίαν τε φέρειν.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
-299 BCE -275 BCE palaeographical dating;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 644
last Change 29.07.2022
Berlpap 00644
Trismegistos 65674
Author BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Philip Schmitz
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 644 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13270), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Philip Schmitz.