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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
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
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1ḥsb.t 25 ı͗bd 3 ꜣḫ.t n pr-ꜥꜣ
2Ptrwmys ı͗rm tꜣ pr-ꜥꜣ.t 1For this title cf. also Moje, Herrscherfrauen (2013), with further literature. Brnygꜣ
3ḥsb.t 25 ı͗bd 3 ꜣḫ.t pr-ꜥꜣ Ptrwmys
4sꜣ Ptrwmys ı͗rm tꜣ pr-ꜥꜣ.t Brnygꜣ
5nꜣ
6nṯr.w mnḫ.w Pꜣ-ı͗wı͗w-(n-)ḥr sꜣ Ns-šw-Tfnw.t pꜣ nty ḏd
7n Mrn 2According to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 107. A reading variant provides Sethe, Bürgschaftsrecht (1920), Nr. 13 ter: Mln. pꜣ rd ꜣwprnys
8pꜣ rgtr ꜥnḫ pr-ꜥꜣ Ptrwmys
9ı͗rm tꜣ pr-ꜥꜣ.t Brnygꜣ
10ı͗rm nꜣ nṯr.w sn.w ı͗.ı͗r ḏı͗.t ḫpr.w
11ı͗rm nꜣ nṯr.w nty nḥm ı͗.ı͗r ḏı͗.t ḫpr nꜣ ı͗.ı͗r
12ḏı͗.t ḫpr.w ı͗rm nꜣ nṯr.w mnḫ.w ı͗rm ꜣs.t
13ı͗rm Wsı͗r-Ḥp ı͗rm nꜣ ky nṯr.w
14tꜣ pš.t n pꜣ ꜣḥ n pꜣ ḏlꜥ 3Cf. Chicago Demotic Dictionary DJ, 77. n Tꜣ-s.t-tꜣy=w-
15N.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
16pꜣ 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.
17pꜣ ꜣḥ n-rn=f ı͗w s Ns-šw-Tfnw.t pꜣy=y ı͗ty
18sẖ=f r.r=f n Tꜣ-ḥtr tꜣy=y mw.t mn
19mtw=f gr nb bl=y r.hn r pꜣ ḏı͗.t s
20ı͗.ı͗r ꜣwprnys (r) dbꜣ-ḥḏ
21ꜥnḫ ḥr=y n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ı͗wı͗w sꜣ Ns-šw-Tfnw.t
22n ḥsb.t 25 ı͗bd 3 ꜣḫ.t n pr-ꜥꜣ Ptrwmys
23sꜣ Ptrwmys ı͗rm tꜣ pr-ꜥꜣ.t
24Brnygꜣ ı͗rm nꜣ nṯr.w sn.w
25ı͗rm nꜣ nṯr.w mnḫ.w
26sẖ Pꜣ-ı͗wı͗w sꜣ Ns-šw-Tfnw.t
27r-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.
125th regnal year, Hathyr of Pharaoh
2Ptolemaios (III.) and of the Female Pharaoh Berenike (II.)
325th regnal year, Hathyr of Ptolemaios (III.),
4son of Ptolemaios (II.), and of the Female Pharaoh Berenike (II),
5the
6gods Euergetai. Pinyris, son of Estphenis is the one who says
7to Milon, the attorney of Euphronios
8praktor: ‘ By Pharaoh Ptolemaios (III.)
9and the Female Pharaoh Berenike (II.)
10and the gods Adelphoi, who created them,
11and the gods Soteres, who created those who
12created them, and the gotes Euergetai and Isis
13and Osiris-Apis and the other gods:
14The 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
16praktor, against repayment of my mortgage.
17The same field: It formerly belongs to Estphenis, my father.
18He made him over to Tathres, my mother.
19He had no master besides me till the giving-away-of-it,
20which Euphronios executed, against repayment.
21It may live my face!’ Issued by Pinyris, son of Estphenis,
22in the 25th regnal year, Hathyr of Pharaoh Ptolemaios (III.),
23son of Ptolemaios (II.), and of the Female Pharaoh
24Berenike (II.) {and the gods Adelphoi}
25{and} the gods Euergetai.
26Countersigned by Pinyris, son of Estphenis,
27in accordance with that which was written above.
     
Places (read out from edition)
  • Tꜣ-s.t-tꜣy=w- N.t (places.xml#s136)
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    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.