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| Collection | Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98514 (sic?) |
| Current Location | magazine |
| Publication Permission Status | permission for publication assigned |
| Publication Status | partly published |
| Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
| Ancient Provenance Details | house "P", find complex 17220 |
| Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Discovery | archaeological excavation Certainty: high |
| Finder (= First Purchaser) | Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt 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 | excavation finds |
| Date of Acquisition for the Intitution | between 1988 and 1988 |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: |
| Object Type | papyrus |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | "several fragments" |
| Mounting | framed under glass |
| Restoration Activities | October 1988: unrolling and framing |
| Localization of Text on Object | recto | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | several fragments, the beginning of the text ist lost. The left side is damaged, but can be joined from 6 fragments. | |
| Script, Primary | Early to Middle Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 20 +y | 0 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 0 | |
| Column Height (in mm) | 0 | |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | q | 0 |
| Modern Title | letter |
| Ancient Archives | "Demotic family archive from the time of Nektenebos" (Farid in prep) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | The letter mentions the payment of persons. The sender is located somewhere north of the destination of the letter/ the addressee. He seems to give instructions how to act during his absence. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 For the reading cf. Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 654. |
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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 7970 | man | Eschonsis, son of Psen[///] | Ns-Ḫnsw sꜢ PꜢ-šr-[///] | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Late period - Early Ptolemaic dynasty | Phamenoth | 07 | -664 BCE -222 BCE | Dating according to some other texts from this archive dating into the reign of Nektanebos II.; |
| DatasetID | 307342 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos | 46719 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 307342 (= Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98514 (sic?)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
