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Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98503,1

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98503,1
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned
Publication Status partly published

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 Incomplete.
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
Comments on Text Layout Currently unknown
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4+y

 

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 mentioning 2 kite to be given to the kalasiris Hor-teba
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1 sꜣ Pꜣ-šr-tꜣ-ı͗ḥ
2 ḏı͗=y ḥḏ (dbn) 2 n gl-šr Ḥr-tbꜣ
3 pꜣ tꜣ bn-pwy rḫ ḏd n=ṯ ḥnꜥ
4 mḏ(t.) nb pꜣ tꜣ ı͗.ı͗r=f ḥnꜥ Ḥr-tbꜣ
1, son of Psintaes
2 I have given 2 silver (deben) to the kalasiris Hor-teba
3 on earth, I should not be able to say to you ..?.. together with ..?..
4 everything on earth done together with Hor-teba
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
7990 man Hor-teba Ḥr-tbꜢ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late period - Ptolemaic dynasty -664 BCE -30 BCE Dating according to some other texts from this archive which were written in the reign of Nectanebo II.;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 307346
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 54479
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307346 (= Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98503,1), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.