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Pap. Berlin P. 13495

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 13495
Publication Number TAD A.4.7
Comments on Inventory 1958 vorhanden
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 excavation finds
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1906 and 1907
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty:

Object

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Currently on display in the Neues Museum, Berlin.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object verso/recto
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 17 13
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Copy of a Petition of Yedanyah and the Priests to the Governor of Judah. Re the Damage to the Temple of Yaho at Elephantine
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
  • documentary | letter | horizontal format
Summary of Content Yedanyah and his colleagues inform the governor of Judah, Bagavaya, of the damage made to the temple by the Priests of Khnum in collaboration with the Persian general Vidranga and his subordinate unit commander Nafayna. Report of the Yaho-member's mourning is told in an attempt to gain political influence and support for state aid for the temple's repair.
Comments on Text Not the recto's header contains an erased line of now illegible text (Moore).
Religion Judaism
Comment on Religion God of heaven, YHW

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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1אל מראנ בגוהי פחת יהוד עבדיכ ידניה וכנותה כהניא זי ביב בירתא שלמ
2מראנ אלה שמיא ישאל שגיא בכל עדנ ולרחמנ ישימנכ קדמ דריוהוש מלכא
3ובני ביתא יתיר מנ זי כענ חד אלפ וחינ אריכנ ינתנ לכ וחדה ושריר הוי בכל עדנ
4כענ עבדכ ידניה וכנותה כנ אמרנ _בירח תמוז שנת 10 + 3 + 1 דריוהוש מלכא כזי ארשמ
5נפק ואזל על מלכא כמריא אלהא זי חנוב זי ביב בירתא המונית עמ וידרנג זי פרתרכ תנה
6הוה למ אגורא זי יהו אלהא זי ביב בירתא יהעדו מנ תמה אחר וידרנג זכ
7לחיא אגרת שלח על נפינ ברה זי רבחיל הוה בסונ בירתא לאמר אגורא זי ביב
8בירתא ינדשו אחר נפינ דבר מצריא עמ חילא אחרננ אתו לבירת יב עמ תליהמ
9עלו באגורא זכ נדשוהי עד ארעא ועמודיא זי אבנא זי הוו תמה תברוהמואפ הוה תרענ
10זי אבנ 3 + 2 בנינ פסילה זי אבנ זי הוו באגורא זכ נדשו ודשיהמ קימנ וציריהמ
11זי דששיא אלכ נחש ומטלל עקהנזי ארז כלא זי עמ שירית אשרנא ואחרנ זי תמה
12הוה כלא באשה שרפו ומזרקיא זי זהבא וכספ ומנדעמתא זי הוה באגורא זכ כלא לקחו
13ולנפשהומ עבדו ומנ יומי מלכ מצרינ אבהינ בנו אגורא זכ ביב בירתא וכזי כנבוזי על למצרינ
14אגורא זכ בנה השכחה ואגורי אלהי מצרינ כל מגרו ואיש מנדעמ באגורא זכ לא חבל
15וכזי כזנה עביד אנחנה עמ נשינ ובנינ שקקנ לבשנ הוינ וצימינ ומצלינ ליהו מרא שמיא
16זי החוינ בוידרנג זכ כלביא הנפקו כבלא מנ רגלוהי וכל נכסינ זי קנה אבדו וכל גברינ
17זי בעו באיש לאגורא זכ כל קטילו וחזינ בהומ אפ קדמת זנה בעדנ זי זא באישתא
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vso1עביד לנ אגרה שלחנ מראנ ועל יהוחננ כהנא רבא וכנותה כהניא זי בירושלמ ועל אוסתנ אחוהי
vso2זי ענני וחרי יהודיא אגרה חדה לא שלחו עלינ אפ מנ ירח תמוז שנת 10 + 3 + 1 דריהוש מלכא
vso3ועדזנה יומא אנחנה שקקנ לבשנ וצימינ נשיא זילנ כארמלה עבידינ משח לא משחינ
vso4וחמר לא שתינ אפ מנ זכי ועד יומ שנת 10 + 3 + 3 + 1 דריהוש מלכא מנחה ולבונה ועלוה
vso5לא עבדו באגורא זכ כענ עבדיכ ידניה וכנותה ויהודיא כל בעלי יב כנ אמרינ
vso6הנ על מראנ טב אתעשת על אגורא זכ למבנה בזי לא שבקנ לנ למבניה חזי בעלי
vso7טבתכ ורחמיכ זי תנה במצרינ אגרה מנכ ישתלח עליהומ על אגורא זי יהו אלהא
vso8למבניה ביב בירתא לקבל זי בנה הוה קדמינ ומחתא ולבונתא ועלותא יהקרבונ
vso9על מדבחא זי יהו אלהא בשמכ ונצלה עליכ בכל עדנ אנחנה ונשינ ובנינ ויהודיא
vso10כל זי תנה הנ כנ עבדו עד זי אגורא זכ יתבנה וצדקה יהוה לכ קדמ יהו אלה
vso11שמיא מנ גבר זי יקרב לה עלוה ודבחנ דמנ כדמי כספ כנכרינ 1 לפ ועל זהב על זנה
vso12שלחנ הודענ אפ כלא מליא באגרה חדה שלחנ בשמנ על דליה ושלמיה בני סנאבלט פחת שמרינ
vso13אפ בזנה זי עביד לנ כלא ארשנ לא ידע ב20 למרחשונ שנת 10 + 3 + 3 + 1 דריהוש מלכא
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1To our lord Bagohi governor of Judah, your servants Jedaniah and his colleagues the priests who are in Elephantine the fortress. The welfare of
2our lord may the God of Heaven seek after abundantly at all times, and grant you favor before King Darius
3and the sons of his house a thousand tiems more than now, and give you long life, and may you be happy and strong at all times.
4Now, your servant Jedaniah and his colleagues say thus: In the month of Tammuz, year 14 of King Darius, when Arsames
5had departed and gone to the king, the priests of Khnub the god who are in Elephantine the fortress, in agreement with Vidranga who (was) Chief here,
6saying, "Let them remove from there the Temple of YHW the God which is in Elephantine the fortress." Then, that Vidranga,
7the wicked, sent a letter to Naphaina his son, who was garrison commander in Syene the fortress, saying,
8"Let them demolish (the Temple which is in Elephantine) the fortress." Then, Naphaina let the Eygptians with the other troops. They came to the fortress of Elephantine with their weapons,
9broke into that Temple, demolished it to the ground, and the stone pillars which were there - they smashed them. Moreover, it happened (that)
10they demolished 5 stone (gateways) built of hewn stone, which were in that Temple. And their standing doors, and
11the bronze (hinges) of those doors, and the cedarwood roof - all of (these) which, with the rest of the fittings and other (things), which
12were (there) - all (of these) they burned with fire. But the gold and silver basins and (other) things which were in that Temple - all (of these) they took
13and made their own. And during the days of the king(s) of Egypt our fathers had built that Temple in Elephantine the fortress and when Cambyses entered Egypt
14he found that Temple built. And they overthrew the temples of the gods of Egypt, all (of them), but one did not damage anything in that Temple.
15And when this had been done (to us), we with our wives and our children were wearing sackcloth and fasting and praying to YHW the Lord of Heaven
16who let us gloat over that Vidranga. The dogs removed the fetter from his feet and all goods which he had acquired were lost. And all persons
17who sought evil for that Temple, all (of them), were killed and we gazed upon them. Moreover, before this - at the time that this evil
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vso1was done to us - we sent a letter (to) our lord, and to Jehohanan the High Priest and his colleagues the priests who are in Jerusalem, and to Ostanes the brother
vso2of Anani and the nobles of the Jews. They did not send us a single letter. Moreover, from the month of Tammuz, year 14 of King Darius
vso3and until this day we are wearing sackcloth and fasting; our wives are made as widow(s); (we) do not anoint (ourselves) with oil
vso4and do not drink wine. Moreover, from that (time) and until (this) day, year 17 of King Darius
vso5they did not make (meal-offering and ince[n]se and holocaust) in that Temple. Now, your servants Jedaniah and his colleagues and the Jews, all (of them) citizens of Elephantine, say thus:
vso6If it please our lord, take thought of that Temple to (re)build (it) since they do not let us (re)build it. Regard
vso7your (community members) and your friends who are here in Egypt. Let a letter be sent from you to them about the Temple of YHW the God
vso8to (re)build it in Elephantine the fortress just as it was formerly built. And they will offer the meal-offering and the incense, and the holocaust
vso9on the altar of YHW the God in your name and we shall pray for you at all times - we and our wives and our children and the Jews,
vso10all (of them) who are here. If they do thus until that Temple be (re)built, you will have a merit before YHW the God of
vso11Heaven more than a person who offers him holocaust and sacrifices (whose) worth is as the worth of silver, 1 thousand talents and [about] gold. Because of this
vso12we have sent (and) informed (you). Moreover, we sent in our name all the(se) words in one letter to Delaiah and Shelemiah sons of Sanballat governor of Samaria.
vso13Moreover, Arsames did not know about any of this which was done to us. On the 20th of Marheshvan, year 17 of King Darius.
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Places (read out from edition)
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  • יב (places.xml#s3)
  • יב (places.xml#s3)
  • יב (places.xml#s3)
  • סונ (places.xml#s8)
  • יב (places.xml#s3)
  • יב (places.xml#s3)
  • מצרינ (places.xml#c1)
  • יב (places.xml#s3)
  • מצר (places.xml#c1)
  • מצרינ (places.xml#c1)
  • ירושלמ (places.xml#s72)
  • ב (places.xml#s3)
  • מצרינ (places.xml#c1)
  • יב (places.xml#s3)
  • שמרינ (places.xml#r54)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    4655 man Abientos Ἀβιήντος (not identified)

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Darius II 17 Marheshvan 20 -407 November 25 BCE Date in text;

     

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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 100282
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Author Lisa Cleath, James D. Moore (Metadata); Verena Lepper
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 100282 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13495), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Lisa Cleath, James D. Moore (Metadata); Verena Lepper.