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Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98508

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98508
Current Location magazine
Comments on Inventory
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
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 4 5
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Sale contract for a house
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 Contract of sale for a house between [///], son of Espmetsepsis and his mother Tayris, and the kalasiris from Elephantine, Espmetsepsis, son of Pametis and Tay-chaa-es.
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 … Nḫt-Ḥr-ḥb - Wsı͗r ḥm-nṯr H̱nm sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mtr-šps mw.t=f Ta-Ḥr - gl-šr n Yb Ns-pꜣ-mtr-šps sꜣ Pa-mtr mw.t=f Tꜣ-ḫꜣꜥ=s - ḏı͗=k mtr ḥꜣ.ṱ=y - pr nty qd ḥbs
2bn-ı͗w rḫ (rmṯ nb pꜣ tꜣ) ı͗nk ḥꜣ(=y) mı͗t.ṱ ı͗ry sḫe n.ı͗m=f
3pꜣ ꜥnḫ pꜣ ḏı͗.t ꜥḥꜥ rd.wy nty ı͗w=w (r) ḏı͗.t s m-sꜣ=k
4
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/
1xth regnal year of Nectanebos - [///] of Osiris, priest of Chnum [///], son of Espmetsepsis and his mother Tayris - the kalasiris of Elephantine Espmetsepsis, son of Pametis and his mother Ta-chaa-es - You have satisfied my heart - a house, which is built and covered.
2Not should any man on earth – and me likewise – be enabled to wield power over it
3The oath (or?) the argument, which will be given behind you
4
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/
     
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
    8045 man Espmetsepsis, son of Pametis and her mother Tay-chaa-es Ns-pꜢ-mtr-šps sꜢ Pa-mtr mw.t=s TꜢy-ḫꜢꜤ=s pre-Coptic Egyptian

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    Nectanebo II -361 BCE -343 BCE Internal dating, with name of the ruler.;

     

    Literature

     

    DatasetID 307362
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 54485
    Author Jan Moje
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 307362 (= Pap. Cairo EM JdE 98508), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.