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TM 55823 / LDAB 55823 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/55823

Metadata

Date: after AD 42 Jul 17 - Aug 13
cf. Neugebauer / Parker, Egyptian astronomical texts 3, p. 228.

Provenance: Arsinoites (Fayum) - Egypt (00The region ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]
cf. Stadler, Théologie et culte au temple de Soknopaiou Nesos, 2017, p. 53

Language/script: Demotic / Greek

Demotic astronomical text with a short Greek note between line 6-7 of column XXXV, written by the same hand which wrote the Ro

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Book form: roll; number of lines per page: 25, 26, 27, 24, 12, 2, 18, 20, 16, 13

Content (beta!): scientific, astronomical list of planets

Culture & genre: science — astronomy, chronology (religion: Egyptian)

Recto/Verso: Vo

Reuse type: other text(s) on the same object: TM 8747, TM 81099

Note: very thin horizontal and vertical lines within the table

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM

Publications

Enchoria 25 (1999), p. 25 (Hoffmann, Friedhelm - 1999; Publication of P. Berlin 23547)
&Neugebauer / Parker, Egyptian astronomical texts 3 p. 228-232 no. 2.b & pl. 71-73 (Neugebauer, Otto / Parker, Richard A. - 1969) [default]

∙P. Berl. Spieg. p. 29-34 no. 8279 Vo (Spiegelberg, Wilhelm - 1902)

Photo: O. Neugebauer, Egyptian Planetary Texts, in: TAPS-NS 32.2 (1942), p. 209-250 / W. Spiegelberg, Demotische Papyrus aus den Königlichen Museen zu Berlin, Leipzig-Berlin, 1902, p. 29; S. Deicher, Die Liste (2015), p. 110

Script & book studies: date: Neugebauer / Parker, p. 228. The date BC 17 - AD 12 given in the astronomical list is not the publishing date

Other bibliography:

Collections

→ Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung P. 23547 Vo + P. 8279 Vo

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    TM 55823

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