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Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98502

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98502
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 51 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
Script, Primary Early Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Currently unknown.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6+y 8
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)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | contract | horizontal format
Summary of Content The contract was made between the two counterparties, [///], son of Montuhotep, born by Tayris, and his brother [///], with the same filiation. ONNe of the men seems to have the title Kalasiris. On the verso, there are listed the signatures of eight wittnesses.
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
1ḥsb.t 12 … Nḫt-Ḥr-ḥb [///] sꜣ Mnṯw-ḥtp ms n Ta-Ḥr - [///] sꜣ Mnṯw-ḥtp mw.t=f Ta-Ḥr - gl-šr
2-8/not published/
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/
vso 8/signature of witness/
112th regnal year of Nectanebos ... [///], son of Montu-hotep, born by Tayris - [///], son of Montu-hotep and his mother Tayris - kalasiris
2/not published/
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/
vso 8/signature of witness/
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8010 man [///]a , son of Montuhotep, born by Tayris [///]a , sꜢ Mnṯw-htp ms Ta-Ḥr (not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Nectanebo II 12 -350 November 15 BCE -349 November 13 BCE Internal dating, with name of the ruler.;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 307355
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 54482
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307355 (= Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98502), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.