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Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98504

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98504
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details house "P", find complex 17224 E
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

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation "papyrus roll in several fragments"
Mounting framed under glass
Restoration Activities October 1988: unrolling and framing

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) incomplete.
Script, Primary Early Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3 7
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title contract
Ancient Archives "Demotic family archive from the time of Nektenebos" (Farid in prep)
Text Types
  • documentary | contract
Summary of Content Contract by Tboknes, whose mother is Tirbastis, and another person whose name is lost. On the Verso there are 7 signatures of witnesses.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: contractant - Identifier of woman: daughter of her mother - Identifier of woman: mother of a woman
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1ḥsb.t 3 … Nḫt-Ḥr-ḥb - ḏd s:ḥm.t Tꜣ-bꜣk-n-s ..?.. mw.t=s Tꜣ-ı͗.ı͗r-Bꜣst.t ...

V
vso 1/signature of witness/
vso 2/signature of witness/
vso 3/signature of witness/
vso 4/signature of witness/
vso 5/signature of witness/
vso 6/signature of witness/
vso 7/signature of witness/
1- 3rd regnal year of Nectanebos. Thus has spoken the woman Tboknes ..?.., daughter? of her mother Tirbastis, ...
vso 1/signature of witness/
vso 2/signature of witness/
vso 3/signature of witness/
vso 4/signature of witness/
vso 5/signature of witness/
vso 6/signature of witness/
vso 7/signature of witness/
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7980 woman Tboknes ..? her mother is Tirbastis TꜢ-bꜢk-n-s ..?.. mw.t=s TꜢ-ỉ.ỉr-BꜢst.t pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Nectanebo II 03 -359 November 17 BCE -358 November 16 BCE Internal dating, with name of the ruler.;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 307345
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 54478
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307345 (= Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98504), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.