Pap. Cairo EM CG 50163 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13527)

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Pap. Cairo EM CG 50163 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13527)
Current Location	Cairo, Egyptian Museum (transferred to the museum in 1912)
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	archaeological excavation Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director) 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	partage
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1906 and 1906
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	330 mm \| 75 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Left and lower right edge damaged. Breakout in the lower left section.
Mounting	[unknown]

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	All line beginnings and endings damaged. Upper lines faded.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	27	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	75	0
Column Height (in mm)	300	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	75 x 300	0

Text Content

Modern Title	royal oath concerning ownership of land
Ancient Archives	praktor archive \| Euphronios \| his attorney Milon
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Pinyris, son of Estphenis
Text Types	documentary \| oath
Summary of Content	Royal oath of Pinyris, son of Estphenis. He swears that he owned a piece of land, which was sold in execution sales due to his insolvency. Doubts about the ownership should be dispelled by the oath.
Location of Composition	Edfou / Apollonpolis magna Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	- Activcity of woman: owner of field, made over to her by her husband. - Identifier of woman: mother of the document scribe
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

1	ḥsb.t 25 ı͗bd 3 ꜣḫ.t n pr-ꜥꜣ
2	Ptrwmys ı͗rm tꜣ pr-ꜥꜣ.t ¹For this title cf. also Moje, Herrscherfrauen (2013), with further literature. Brnygꜣ
3	ḥsb.t 25 ı͗bd 3 ꜣḫ.t pr-ꜥꜣ Ptrwmys
4	sꜣ Ptrwmys ı͗rm tꜣ pr-ꜥꜣ.t Brnygꜣ
5	nꜣ
6	nṯr.w mnḫ.w Pꜣ-ı͗wı͗w-(n-)ḥr sꜣ Ns-šw-Tfnw.t pꜣ nty ḏd
7	n Mrn ²According to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 107. A reading variant provides Sethe, Bürgschaftsrecht (1920), Nr. 13 ter: Mln. pꜣ rd ꜣwprnys
8	pꜣ rgtr ꜥnḫ pr-ꜥꜣ Ptrwmys
9	ı͗rm tꜣ pr-ꜥꜣ.t Brnygꜣ
10	ı͗rm nꜣ nṯr.w sn.w ı͗.ı͗r ḏı͗.t ḫpr.w
11	ı͗rm nꜣ nṯr.w nty nḥm ı͗.ı͗r ḏı͗.t ḫpr nꜣ ı͗.ı͗r
12	ḏı͗.t ḫpr.w ı͗rm nꜣ nṯr.w mnḫ.w ı͗rm ꜣs.t
13	ı͗rm Wsı͗r-Ḥp ı͗rm nꜣ ky nṯr.w
14	tꜣ pš.t n pꜣ ꜣḥ n pꜣ ḏlꜥ ³Cf. Chicago Demotic Dictionary DJ, 77. n Tꜣ-s.t-tꜣy=w-
15	N.t nty ı͗r sṯꜣ-ꜣḥ(?) 1 ⁴According to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 107. A reading variant provides Sethe, Bürgschaftsrecht (1920), Nr. 13 ter: st.t.w ꜣḥ 1. r.ḏı͗ ꜣwprnys
16	pꜣ rgtr (r) dbꜣ-ḥḏ ẖnw tꜣy=y ḏsf ⁵According to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 107. A reading variant provides Sethe, Bürgschaftsrecht (1920), Nr. 13 ter: bsf.
17	pꜣ ꜣḥ n-rn=f ı͗w s Ns-šw-Tfnw.t pꜣy=y ı͗ty
18	sẖ=f r.r=f n Tꜣ-ḥtr tꜣy=y mw.t mn
19	mtw=f gr nb bl=y r.hn r pꜣ ḏı͗.t s
20	ı͗.ı͗r ꜣwprnys (r) dbꜣ-ḥḏ
21	ꜥnḫ ḥr=y n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ı͗wı͗w sꜣ Ns-šw-Tfnw.t
22	n ḥsb.t 25 ı͗bd 3 ꜣḫ.t n pr-ꜥꜣ Ptrwmys
23	sꜣ Ptrwmys ı͗rm tꜣ pr-ꜥꜣ.t
24	Brnygꜣ ı͗rm nꜣ nṯr.w sn.w
25	ı͗rm nꜣ nṯr.w mnḫ.w
26	sẖ Pꜣ-ı͗wı͗w sꜣ Ns-šw-Tfnw.t
27	r-ẖ nꜣ nty sẖ ḥry

¹ For this title cf. also Moje, Herrscherfrauen (2013), with further literature.
² According to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 107. A reading variant provides Sethe, Bürgschaftsrecht (1920), Nr. 13 ter: Mln.
³ Cf. Chicago Demotic Dictionary DJ, 77.
⁴ According to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 107. A reading variant provides Sethe, Bürgschaftsrecht (1920), Nr. 13 ter: st.t.w ꜣḥ 1.
⁵ According to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 107. A reading variant provides Sethe, Bürgschaftsrecht (1920), Nr. 13 ter: bsf.

1	25th regnal year, Hathyr of Pharaoh
2	Ptolemaios (III.) and of the Female Pharaoh Berenike (II.)
3	25th regnal year, Hathyr of Ptolemaios (III.),
4	son of Ptolemaios (II.), and of the Female Pharaoh Berenike (II),
5	the
6	gods Euergetai. Pinyris, son of Estphenis is the one who says
7	to Milon, the attorney of Euphronios
8	praktor: ‘ By Pharaoh Ptolemaios (III.)
9	and the Female Pharaoh Berenike (II.)
10	and the gods Adelphoi, who created them,
11	and the gods Soteres, who created those who
12	created them, and the gotes Euergetai and Isis
13	and Osiris-Apis and the other gods:
14	The half of the field in the land section(?)of Ta-set-taiu-
15	-Neith, which amounts to 1 aroura of field(?), which gave away Euphronios
16	praktor, against repayment of my mortgage.
17	The same field: It formerly belongs to Estphenis, my father.
18	He made him over to Tathres, my mother.
19	He had no master besides me till the giving-away-of-it,
20	which Euphronios executed, against repayment.
21	It may live my face!’ Issued by Pinyris, son of Estphenis,
22	in the 25th regnal year, Hathyr of Pharaoh Ptolemaios (III.),
23	son of Ptolemaios (II.), and of the Female Pharaoh
24	Berenike (II.) {and the gods Adelphoi}
25	{and} the gods Euergetai.
26	Countersigned by Pinyris, son of Estphenis,
27	in accordance with that which was written above.

Places (read out from edition)

Tꜣ-s.t-tꜣy=w- N.t (places.xml#s136)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4037	man	Euphronios praktor	Ꜣwprnys = Εὐφρόνιος	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes	25	Hathyr		-223 December 13 BCE -222 January 11 BCE	internal dating, without name of the ruler;

Literature

DatasetID	100018
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	43411
Author	Jan Moje
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100018 (= Pap. Cairo EM CG 50163 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13527)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.