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Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98505

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98505
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 some fragments
Mounting framed under glass
Restoration Activities October 1988: unrolling and framing

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object (unknown/uncertain)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) some fragments
Script, Primary Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic

 

Text Content

Modern Title papyrus with "a literary text"
Ancient Archives "Demotic family archive from the time of Nektenebos" (Farid in prep)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • literary
Summary of Content "Fragments of a literary text", according to the editor.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Nectanebo II -359 BCE -341 BCE Dating according to some other texts from this archive dating into the reign of Nektanebos II.;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 307360
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 54487
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307360 (= Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98505), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.