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Pap. Berlin P. 13614

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 13614
Current Location exhibition | Neues Museum, Berlin
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 Details "ruin of a private house"
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
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 1908
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 125 mm | 335 mm | mm
Criteria for Dating Kein Palimpsest.
Rotation around vertical axis (side to side)
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The lateral parts are broken off in undetermined extent. The upper and lower edges are damaged. Several larger, horizontally stringed holes above the text, from the original sealing.
Mounting framed under glass

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (recto) and perpendicular (verso)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) All line beginnings and endings are lost.
Script, Primary Early Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Geübte frühdemotische Urkundenschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2).
Comments on Text Layout Recto: Medium line pitch. The text was placed centered onto the sheet, with broad upper and lower margins. Verso: Medium line pitch. The text was placed onto the lower right section.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 6
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 315 60
Column Height (in mm) 35 60
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 315 x 35 60 x 60

 

Text Content

Modern Title Marriage contract
Ancient Archives private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | contract | vertical format
Summary of Content Marriage contract of Hapertais, son of Teos and his mother Taiu-nacht, with Seniah, daughter of Pa-anch-i-ı͗r-iy and her mother Tetesatis. With autographic witness signatures.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text Year number "30" clearly visible, the unit position with "4" according to Wolja Erichsen.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: contractant in marriage contract - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man and of her mother - Identifier of woman: mother of a woman in her filiation
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1ḥsb.t 34 … pr-ꜥꜣ Wꜣḥ-ib-Rꜥ 1According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), no. C27. ḏd nfw mw byn Ḥp-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s sꜣ Ḏd-ḥr mw.t=f Tꜣy=w-nḫt s.ḥm.t Tꜣ-šr(.t)-n-ı͗ꜥḥ ta Pꜣ-ꜥnḫ-ı͗.ı͗r-ı͗y mw.t=s Tꜣ-ḏı͗-Spd.t ı͗r=(y) ḏı͗=ṯ n ḥm.t n ḥsb.t 34 [///]
2 ḫbr (n) pš nꜣy=y ẖrṱ.w nty ms nꜣy.w 2According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), no. C27, following M. Malinine in OLZ 50 (1955), 498. The translation presented here is based on his version. n nty nb nkt nty mtw(=y) ḥnꜥ nꜣ nty ı͗w(=y) r ḏı͗.t ḫpr.w ḥnꜥ ꜣḫ.ṱ n ı͗t mw.t ı͗w(ı͗) ḫꜣꜥ(=ṯ) m ḥm.t
3 ı͗nk ı͗w=y r ḏı͗.t n=ṯ ḥḏ (qd) 2 n pr-ḥḏ n N.t ḥnꜥ bd 8 n 34Reading of „8“ nach Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), no. C 27, the previous reading was bd 50. tꜣ hn 40 sẖ Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Pꜣ-sꜣ-n-mṯk-mnḫ-ı͗b 5Reading after Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), no. C 27.

1 According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), no. C27.
2 According to Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), no. C27, following M. Malinine in OLZ 50 (1955), 498. The translation presented here is based on his version.
3 Reading of „8“ nach Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), no. C 27, the previous reading was bd 50.
4 Reading of „8“ nach Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), no. C 27, the previous reading was bd 50.
5 Reading after Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), no. C 27.
V
Vso 1 Wꜣḥ-ı͗b-Rꜥ sꜣ Ḥr-wḏꜣ
Vso 2 Ns-pꜣ-wḏꜣ-Ḏḥwtı͗ sꜣ Ns-Ḥr
Vso 3 Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Ns-Wn-nfr
Vso 4 I͗r.t-w-r.r-w sꜣ Ḥr-wḏ
Vso 5 Pꜣ-sꜣ-mtq sꜣ Wꜣḥ-ı͗b-Rꜥ-mry-Nı͗.t 1Reading after Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), no. C 27.
Vso 6 Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Tty sꜣ Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Ḥr
Vso 7

1 Reading after Martin, Demotic Texts (1996), no. C 27.
1[34th regnal year … of Pharaoh Amasis]. Thus has spoken the cataract pilot Hapertais, son of Teos and his mother Taiu-nacht, (to) the lady Seniah, daughter of Pa-anch-i-ir-iy and her mother Tetesatis: (I) have made you a wife in the 34th regnal year. [///]
2[/// The children whom you will bear to me] are sharers with my children who are (already) born, concerning all and each which belongs to me, together with that which I will gain, together with the estates of father (and) mother. If I leave (you) as [wife ///]
3[/// I shall pay out to you 2 silver (deben) from] the treasury of Thebes, together with 8 (sacks) emmer (by the measure) of 40 hin. Written by Espmetis, son of Psammetichos-menechib.
Vso 1 Oaphres, son of Haryotes.
Vso 2 Espotethotes, son of Esyris.
Vso 3 Espmetis, son of Esonnophris.
Vso 4 Ithoros, son of Haryotes.
Vso 5 Psammetichos, son of ⸢Oaphres-meri-neithes⸣.
Vso 6 Peteteti, son of Peteyris.
Vso 7 [///].
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Places (read out from edition)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    9480 man Amasis (pharaoh) Wꜣḥ-ỉb-Rꜥ pre-Coptic Egyptian

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Amasis 3[4(?)] -537 BCE -536 BCE internal dating, name of the ruler lost;

     

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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 100461
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 45692
    Author Jan Moje
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 100461 (= Pap. Berlin P. 13614), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.