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Pap. Vindob. D 10150

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Wien, Nationalbibliothek Pap
Inventory Number Pap. Vindob. D 10150
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

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 (unknown)
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) (unknown)
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 (unknown)
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1870 and 1922
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (unknown)
Certainty:

Object

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, dark brown
Rotation around vertical axis (side to side)
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete, only some small damages.
Mounting framed under glass

Text Basic Information

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) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Only some small damages, restorable by the parallels Pap. Vindob. D 10152-10153
Script, Primary Early Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic
Comments on Handwriting Clear and steady handwriting. The ductus of the witnesses differ because they signed personally.
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. Recto: The text was placed onto the upper half of the sheet, with very large right and upper margins, and with medium left margin. the lower half remains uninscribed. Verso: The text was placed centered onto the sheet.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7 8
Quantity of Columns 1 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 430 50
Column Height (in mm) 82 80
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 430 x 82 50 x 80

 

Text Content

Modern Title contract for transfer of income from administrative offices (original version of the document)
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | contract | horizontal format
Summary of Content Espmetis, son of Bochorinis, transfers to his daughter Seniah a third of each of the income of his offices as a scribe-of-the-chest and as a scribe-of-allotment. Persons acting against this contract should pay 5 kite from the "bank" Treasury-of-Ptah. The document was written by a Chnoum tempel schribe.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Ethnicity / Multiculturalism Egyptian
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender - Activity of woman: contractant - Activity of woman: owner of income of administrative offices - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man - Identifier of woman: mother of a woman in her filiation
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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1ḥsb.t 12 ı͗bd 4 šmw n pr-ꜥꜣ ꜥws Tryꜣwš ꜥws ḏd wṯs-Rꜥ sẖ ḏy Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Bꜣk-rn=f mw.t=f Rnp.t-nfr.t n s:ḥm.t Tꜣ-šr.t-n-I͗ꜥḥ ta Ns-pꜣ-mtr mw.t=s Rnp.t-nfr.t
2ḏı͗(=y) n=ṯ pꜣ ⅓ n tꜣy=y dnı͗.t n tꜣ ı͗ꜣw.t sẖ ḏy tꜣ ı͗ꜣw.t sẖ nty mtw(=y) m-ḏr.t pꜣy=y ı͗t mtw(=ṯ) s bn ı͗w rḫ rmṯ nb n pꜣ tꜣ ı͗r sḫy n pꜣ ⅓ n tꜣy
3=y dnı͗.t n tꜣ ı͗ꜣw.t sẖ ḏy tꜣ ı͗ꜣw.t sẖ tš nty mtw(=y) m-ḏr.t pꜣy=y ı͗t bnr=ṯ n-ṯꜣy ı͗t mw.t sn sn.t šr šr.t ḥry ḥry.t rmṯ nb n pꜣ tꜣ ı͗nk ḥꜣ(=y) mı͗t.ṱ
4pꜣ nty ı͗w=f r ı͗y r.ḥr=ṯ r-dbꜣ pꜣy ⅓ n tꜣ ı͗ꜣw.t sẖ ḏy sẖ tš nty mtw(=y) m-ḏr.t pꜣy=y ı͗t r ṯꜣy.ṱ=f mtw=ṯ ḏd bn ı͗w mtw(=ṯ) s ı͗n n-ṯꜣy n ı͗t mw.t
5sn sn.t šr šr.t ḥry ḥry.t rmṯ nb n pꜣ tꜣ ı͗nk ḥꜣ(=y) mı͗t.ṱ ı͗w=f (r) ḏı͗.t n=ṯ ḥḏ dbn 5 pr-ḥḏ n Ptḥ n wtḥ ı͗wṱ ḏd qnb nb pꜣ tꜣ ı͗rm=ṯ n-dr.t
6sẖ ḥ.t-nṯr n H̱nm Ns-pꜣ-mty sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-nty-(n-)sny
7sẖ Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Bꜣk-rn=f tp=f
V
vso 1 Wꜣḥ-ı͗b-Rꜥ sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mtr
vso 2 Ḥp-ı͗w sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mtr
vso 3 Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Wꜣḥ-ı͗b-Rꜥ
vso 4 Ḥr sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mtr
vso 5 Ns-Ḫnsw sꜣ ꜥnḫ-Ḥp
vso 6 Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Pꜣ-ḥm-nṯr
vso 7 Ns-Ḥr sꜣ Ns-
vso 8 I͗ꜥḥ-ı͗.ı͗r-ḏı͗-s sꜣ Bn-pw-H̱nm-ḫꜣꜥ-r.r=w
112th regnal year, Mesore, of Pharaoh LPH Dareios LPH. Thus has spoken the carrier-of-Ra (and) scribe-[of-the-chest] Espmetis, son of Bochorinis and his mother Rempnophris (I.), to the lady Seniah, daughter of Espmetis and her mother Rempnophris (II.):
2(I) have given to you the ⅓ of my percentage of the office of a scribe-of-the-chest (and) of the office of a scribe-[of allotment] scribe, which belongs (to me) from my father. It belongs (to you). Any man in the world will be able to exercise control over the ⅓ of my
3percentage of the office of a scribe-of-the-chest (and) of the office of a scribe-of-allotment, which belongs (to me) from my father, apart from you, whether father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, master, mistress (or) any man in the world, I myself likewise.
4The one who will come against you because of this ⅓ of the office of a scribe-of-the-chest (and) [of a scribe-of-allotment], which belongs to me from my father, to take it away from you, saying „It does not belong to you!‘ whether father, mother,
5brother, sister, son, daughter, master, mistress (or) any man in the world, I myself likewise, he shall give [to you] 5 [silver deben] from the treasury of Ptah, adequate, without citing ˹any˺ title deed in the world against you. Issued by
6 (the) temple scribe of Chnoum Espmetis, son of Espetensenis.
7Countersigned by Espmetis, son of Bochorinis, autographic.
vso 1 Oaphres, son of Espmetis.
vso 2 Hapieus, son of Espmetis.
vso 3 Espmetis, son of Oaphris.
vso 4 Horos, son of Espme[tis].
vso 5 Eschonsis, son of Achoapis.
vso 6 Espmetis, son of Phomtis.
vso 7 Esyris, son of Es-⸢..?..⸣ .
vso 8 Artais, son of Benpouchnoum-chaaroys.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
620 man Artais, son of Benpouchnoum-chaa-roys ỈꜤḥ-ỉ:ỉr-ḏỉ-s sꜢ Bn-pw-H̱nm-ḫꜢꜤ-n=w pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Darius I 12 Mesore -510 November 18 BCE -510 December 17 BCE internal dating, with name of the ruler;

 

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307650
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 45743
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307650 (= Pap. Vindob. D 10150), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.