Pap. Berlin P. 13410

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 13410
Publication Number	SB V 7573
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	The recto of the papyrus is already mentioned in BerlPap.
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
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	Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	purchase
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(unknown) Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, dark
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	360 mm \| 139 mm \| mm
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Heavily damaged. Many rather rectangular holes on the entire sheet.
Mounting	framed under glass

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)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Very fragmentary.
Script, Primary	Greek
Script, additional A	Late Demotic
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Language, additional A	Roman Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand unknown
Comments on Text Layout	Narrow line pitch. The right-aligned text was placed onto the upper part of the papyrus, with a small right and a broder left margin. The lower two-fifth of the papyrus remain uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	22+10	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	115124
Column Height (in mm)	16768
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	115 x 167 (Gr) + 124 x 68 cm (Demotic)	0

Text Content

Modern Title	Mandate concerning the sale of a slave
Ancient Archives	private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| contract \| vertical format
Summary of Content	Sale agreement concerning a slave. Taorseus, daughter of Onnophris and her mother Tanese..?.., authorized Pachompetenephotes to sell her slave Narcissus, while the revenue is due to herself. Below similar text in Demotic.
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Below similar text in Demotic.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Comments on Text	greek ok demotic ?
Multilingualism	Bilingual Script = Language
Gender	Woman Man
Comment on Gender	- Activity of woman: contractant - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man and of her mother
Religion	Syncretism
Comment on Religion	priest of Ammon the great god priest of ?Isis?, the great godess?

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	ἔτους εἰκοστοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος
2	Τραιανου̂ Ἀρίστου Σεβαστου̂ Γερμανικου̂
3	Δακικου̂ Παρθικου̂, Χοίακ ια ¹date from Demotic subscript ἐν -ca.?- τῆς Θη-
4	βαίδος ἐ̣π̣ὶ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣υ̣ Ἀμμωνίου καὶ -?-
5	Γαίου ἀγορανόμων. ὁμολογεῖ Ταουερσηου̂ς
6	Ὀννώφρεως μη̣τρὸς Σε̣νεσε̣ντιος ²ed. Τ]α̣νεσε̣[ -?- ἀπὸ
7	Ἐλεφαντίνης ὡς (ἐτῶν) μα, μ -ca.?-
8	μετὰ κυρίου Παχομπαοννώφρεος Φα̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ἱερέως Ἄμ-
9	μωνος θεου̂ μεγίστου Παχομπετενεφώτῃ
10	Ὀννώφρεως μητρὸς Τισάτις ἱερεῖ Ἴσιδος θε̣-
11	ᾶς μεγίστης ἐπίτροπον πεποιηκέναι α(ὐτὸν) ἐπὶ
12	τῷ πωλῆσαι τὸν ὑπάρχοντα αὐτῇ οἰκογενηι ³ l. οἰ[κογεν]ῆ
13	δου̂λον, ᾧ ὄνομα Νάρκισσος, ὡς (ἐτῶν) η, οὐλὴ χειρὶ
14	δεξιᾷ ἐκ τῆς ὑπαρχούσης αὐτῇ καὶ με̣τηλλαχυ-
15	ειης ⁴ l. με[τηλλαχ]υ\|ίας δούλης Ἀφροδείτης -?- , ἐφʼ ᾧ πωλήσει ὁ
16	Παχομπετενεφώτης τὸν δοῦλον Νάρκισσον καὶ
17	ἀποκαταστήσει τὴν τούτου τειμὴν ⁵ l. τιμὴν τῇ ἑαυτου̂
18	πίστει τῇ προγεγραμμένῃ Ταουερσηου̂τι ἐκ πλή-
19	ρους, ἐξέσται δὲ αὐτῷ οἰκονομεῖν π[ερὶ] τὸν
20	δηλούμενον δ̣ου̂λον, ὡς ἐὰν αἱρηται καὶ ἣν
21	ἐὰν ποιήσηται περὶ τούτου ἀσφάλειαν κυρία̣ν
22	εἶναι ὡς καὶ ἑαυτῆς παρούσης.

¹ date from Demotic subscript
² ed. Τ]α̣νεσε̣[
³ l. οἰ[κογεν]ῆ
⁴ l. με[τηλλαχ]υ|ίας
⁵ l. τιμὴν

1	¹Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje. I am indebted to Andreas Winkler for discussing this text in the context of other slave contracts. Ta-Wrše-ꜥꜣ.t ta Wn-nfr nty rmṯ.(.t) ²Such full writings of rmṯ are attested in Roman times: ERICHSEN, Demotisches Glossar, 247. m Yb nty ḏd n Pa-H̱nm-Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Nfr-ḥtp sꜣ
2	Wn-nfr mw.t=f Tꜣy-Sty tw=y ı͗r n.ı͗m=k ³ⲙ̅ⲙⲟⲕ. n ꜣpytrpws ⁴The Greek title ἐπίτροπος from the first part of the papyrus is transliterated into Demotic, which seems to be the first attestation in Demotic. For the Greek term see Straus, La terminologie de l'esclavage (reference due to A. WINKLER). r-dbꜣ pꜣ šr ẖr.t
3	nty ḏd n=f Nꜥrgss nty pꜣy=f ꜥḥꜥ n ꜥnḫ rnp.t 8.t r-dbꜣ-ḥḏ n(?) mtw=k
4	ı͗rm=f ı͗w wn mtw=k s wn md(.t) nb dy r.r=f r-ẖ.t pꜣ nty ı͗w=w r-šn=k n.ı͗m=f
5	nty r dbꜣ-ḥḏ n nꜣ nty ı͗r mrẖ(?) twy=s Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Wn-nfr sꜣ Pa-/// ⁵In the Greek part, the father of Pachompaonnophis is mentioned as Φα[///], the rest is unfortuantely lost in both languages. Due to the small lacuna in the Demotic part, the name must have been rather short. I assume Pa-wn (Phagonis), Pꜣ-ḥtr (Phates), or Pa-Mn (Phaminis), Pa-ꜥw (Paous).
6	pꜣy=s ṯs pꜣ ḥm-nṯr I͗mn r ḫrw=s (ı͗w⸗f) ḫpr (ı͗w) bw-ı͗r⸗y gꜣ(?) ı͗w=f ı͗r yꜥyb.w ⁶Writing for yꜥby, which regularly means “illness”. Here the final sign looks like the divine determinative, which may point to epilepsy which is called in antiquity as the holy, divine illness, mentioned in Greek slave contracts as ἳερος νόσος, cf. URBANIK, Slave defects, passim. Due to this, I tentatively translate “epilepsy” here, r
7	nty-ḥrj n-ḏr.t n ḥsb.t 20.t n 𓍹ꜣwṱgrtr ꜥws 𓍹Gysrs
8	𓍹Nrwys ⁷This element does not appear in the Greek sequence of the imperator’s identification, but due to the available space I assume this name here. Only for Gysrs the space would be too large, besides the line-break within the word would be rather unusual. Therefore, nothing else but „Nerva” might fit in the lacuna. 𓍹Trꜥyꜥns ꜥws 𓍹ꜣrystw Sbsṱs
9	𓍹Grmꜥnyks Tꜥgygꜥws Prtrygws
10	ı͗bd 4 ꜣḫ.t sw 11
11	(trace, but no text)

¹ Transcription and translation of the Demotic by Jan Moje. I am indebted to Andreas Winkler for discussing this text in the context of other slave contracts.
² Such full writings of rmṯ are attested in Roman times: ERICHSEN, Demotisches Glossar, 247.
³ ⲙ̅ⲙⲟⲕ.
⁴ The Greek title ἐπίτροπος from the first part of the papyrus is transliterated into Demotic, which seems to be the first attestation in Demotic. For the Greek term see Straus, La terminologie de l'esclavage (reference due to A. WINKLER).
⁵ In the Greek part, the father of Pachompaonnophis is mentioned as Φα[///], the rest is unfortuantely lost in both languages. Due to the small lacuna in the Demotic part, the name must have been rather short. I assume Pa-wn (Phagonis), Pꜣ-ḥtr (Phates), or Pa-Mn (Phaminis), Pa-ꜥw (Paous).
⁶ Writing for yꜥby, which regularly means “illness”. Here the final sign looks like the divine determinative, which may point to epilepsy which is called in antiquity as the holy, divine illness, mentioned in Greek slave contracts as ἳερος νόσος, cf. URBANIK, Slave defects, passim. Due to this, I tentatively translate “epilepsy” here,
⁷ This element does not appear in the Greek sequence of the imperator’s identification, but due to the available space I assume this name here. Only for Gysrs the space would be too large, besides the line-break within the word would be rather unusual. Therefore, nothing else but „Nerva” might fit in the lacuna.

1	In year 20 of Imperator Caesar
2	Trajan Optimus Augustus Germanicus
3	Dacicus Parthicus, Choiak 11? in --- of the
4	Thebaid before the notaries NN, son of Ammonios and NN,
5	son of Gaius. Thus acknowledges Taouerseous,
6	daughter of Onnophris and the mother Senesentis?, one of those from
7	Elephantine, 41 years old, ---,
8	with her guardian Pachompaonnophris, son of Pha---, priest of
9	Ammon the great god, to Pachompetenephotes,
10	son of Onnophris and the mother Tisatis, priest of Isis?, the
11	the great godess, to having appointed him as mandatary for
12	the purpose of selling the houseborn slave belonging to her,
13	whose name is Narkissos, 8 years old, with a mark on the
14	right hand, born out of her own deceased
15	female slave Aphrodite, on the condition that
16	Pachompetenephotes shall sell the slave Narkissos and
17	shall hand over the price for him, acting on his own
18	good faith, to the aforesaid Taouerseous in full.
19	It shall be permitted to him to proceed with regard to
20	the aforesaid slave however he chooses, and the
21	contract whichever he will draw up concerning him (the slave) shall be valid as
22	if she herself was present.

1	Taorseos, daughter of Onnophris, who is a woman from [Elephantine, is the one who speaks to Pa]chnoumis-Petenephotes, son
2	of Onnophris and of his mother Tisatis: ‘I make you the authority regarding the son of [my(?)] female slave [///]
3	[///], who is called Narkissos, [8 years old], ⸢..?..⸣ against payment will belong to you [///]⸢..?..⸣
4	⸢..?..⸣[///] in that he belongs to you. And if there is anything here against him, according to that, what you will be asked about him ⸢..?.⸣
5	⸢..?..⸣ [who against pay]ment from those who carry on a lawsuit since(?) [///] Pachnoumis, son of Onnophris, [son of Pha///],
6	her [guardian, the] priest of Amun, on her order, if I will not [/// or] if he suffers from epilepsy [///]
7	⸢..?..⸣[///], which was mentioned above. Issued in the 20th regnal year of Imperator LPH Caesar
8	Nerva Traianus LPH Optimus Augustus
9	Germanicus Dacicus Parthicus,
10	11th of Choiak.
11	(trace, but no text)

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Places (read out from edition)

τῆς Θη- (places.xml#156)

βαίδος (places.xml#156)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
4300	man	Ammonios (P. 13410)	Ἀμμώνιος	Greek, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Trajan	20	Choiak	11	116 December 7 CE	Internal dating, with name of the ruler. Dating according to Demotic subscription; cf. DBL, 581 (= BL 7, 195);

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Literature

DatasetID	100254
last Change	10.08.2022
Berlpap	03710/
Trismegistos	17972
Papyri.info	trismegistos/17972
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic); Emil Joubert (bibliography)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 100254 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13410), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Jan Moje (Demotic); Emil Joubert (bibliography).