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Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98501

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98501
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 Beginn and ending of the roll are fragmented and holey. At the bottom a small part is lost today.
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) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Complete, somly some signs are damaged.
Script, Primary Early Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text is set approximately on the middle of the sheet, with very broad margins on top and at the bottom. On the right side, the rlight-aligned text holds a small but equal gap to the right edge.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 10
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Marriage contract
Ancient Archives "Demotic family archive from the time of Nektenebos" (Farid in prep)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | contract
Summary of Content Marriage contract between Peteesis, son of Espmetis and his mother Tayris, and Ta-reshy, daughter of Pametis and her mother Tay-chaa-es. According to A. Farid, the composition is different from those contracts published in Erichsen, Eheverträge.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Identifier of woman: mother of a woman in her filiation - Identifier of woman: daughter of a woman in her filiation - Identifier of woman: daugher of a woman and her mother - Activity of woman: contractant in marriage contract
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1ḥsb.t 3.t ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t (n) Nḫt-Ḥr-ḥb ḏd rmṯ n Yb Pꜣ-ḏı͗-ꜣs.t sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mtr mw.t=f Ta-Ḥr n s:ḥm.t Ta-ršy 1Reading according to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 654. ta Pa-mtı͗ mw.t=s Tꜣy-ḫꜣꜥ=s ı͗r=y ḏı͗=ṯ n ḥm.t ḏı͗=ṯ mtr ḥꜣ.ṱ=y n ḥḏ (dbn) 1 n pr-ḥḏ Ptḥ wtḥ
2/divorce clause, maintenance clause/
3/warrant clause, promise/ sẖ Ḥr-sꜣ-ꜣs.t
4sꜣ

1 Reading according to Den Brinker / Muhs / Vleeming, DBL (2005), 654.
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/
vso 9/signature of witness/
vso 10/signature of witness/
13rd regnal year, Pachons (of) Nectanebos. The man from Elephantine Peteese, son of Espmetis and his mother Tayris, has spoken to the woman Tareshy, daughter of Pametis and her mother Tay-chaa-es: I have made you a wife. You have satisfied my heart with the 1 silver (deben) from the treasury of Ptah, adequate.
2/divorce clause, maintenance clause/
3/warrant clause, promise/. Written by Harsiesis,
4son of ..?..
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/
vso 9/signature of witness/
vso 19/signature of witness/
     
Places (read out from edition)
  • Yb (places.xml#s3)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    8025 man Peteesis, son of Espmetis and his mother Tayris PꜢ-ḏỉ-Ꜣs.t sꜢ Ns-pꜢ-mtỉ mw.t=f Ta-Ḥr pre-Coptic Egyptian

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Nectanebo II 03 Pachons -358 July 15 BCE -358 August 13 BCE Internal dating, with name of the ruler.;

     

    Literature

     

    DatasetID 307361
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 54484
    Author Jan Moje
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 307361 (= Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98501), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.