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Inventory Number | Pap. München, Loeb 1 |
Current Location | magazine |
Publication Permission Status | (unknown) |
Publication Status | published |
Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Discovery | purchase Certainty: medium |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | Spiegelberg, Wilhelm on behalf of James Loeb Certainty: medium |
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Cairo |
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution | donation |
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution | between 1927 and 1927 |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Spiegelberg, Wilhelm on behalf of James Loeb Certainty: high |
Object Type | papyrus |
Color | papyrus, light brown |
Dating of Object | Persian Period / Dareios I. |
Dating | between -486 and -486 |
Criteria for Dating | Use of a new roll. |
Rotation | around horizontal axis (top to bottom) |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Damaged on top with a horizontal row of holes from the broken sealing. |
Mounting | framed under glass |
Restoration Activities | 1927, Munich (Hugo Ibscher) |
Localization of Text on Object | recto/verso | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (recto) and perpendicular (verso) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Complete. | |
Script, Primary | Early Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Early Demotic | |
Comments on Text Layout | Recto: Wide and steady line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire surface of the papyrus, with a broad margin on top (to avoid future text damage when breaking the sealing), and a slightly smaller margin at the botttom, without lateral margins. Verso: Continuation from the Recto. Wide and steady line pitch. The right-aligned text is places onto the upper half of the papyrus, with a small margin on top but without lateral margins. The lower part remains uniscribed except for the he address line placed centered at the bottom. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 12 | 6 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 265 | 260 |
Column Height (in mm) | 180 | 110 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 265 x 180 | 260 x 110 |
Modern Title | letter to the Persian local administrator of Elephantine Parnuma concerning transportation of grain |
Ancient Archives | local Persian administrator Parnuma | correspondence archive |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Chnoummachis, son of Harnouphis, writes to the Persian local administrator of Elephantine Farnava (not Pherendates as assumed in the earlier literature) concerning the transportation of grain. He insists on guarded men to guard the grain due to the danger of outlaws. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
8705 | man | Atarpana | ꜣṱrpn | Old Persian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Darius I | 36 | Mecheir | 17 | -486 June 2 BCE | Internal dating, with name of the ruler.; |
DatasetID | 307473 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 46738 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307473 (= Pap. München, Loeb 1), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |