Pap. Padua, Museo Civico [unknown]

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Padua, Museo Civico
Inventory Number	Pap. Padua, Museo Civico [unknown]
Current Location	magazine
Comments on Inventory	ex collection Belzoni
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 Details	unknown
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	find or purchase Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Belzoni, Giovanni Battista Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	unknown
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 1950 and 1950
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Belzoni heirs Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, light brown
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Consists of two not joining pieces with the middle part lost in undetermined extent
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)	The middle part is lost in unknown extent.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	(none)
Comments on Text Layout	Very wide line space. The text covers on recto and verso nearly the entire surface of the papyrus, without lateral margins. Only on the verso, on top and at the bottom each there is a strip in the height of apprximataly one line remaining uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7+y+11	11+y+7
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	draft letter requesting the delivery of grain
Ancient Archives	private archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	documentary \| letter \| vertical format
Summary of Content	This is the draft of a letter to be send from Elephantine to Elkab. Beneath different matters, partly unclear due to the lost of the middle part, the main topic is the request of outstanding grain.
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: unclear context (presumably passive activity) - Identifier of woman: daughter ("youngster") of a man - Identifier of woman: daughter ("youngster") of a woman
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

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1	mn ḏꜣ.t n Ta-Mwt tꜣ ꜥ ꜣ .t ı͗rm
2	nꜣy=s ḫm-ẖl.w Rnp.t-nfr.t
3	tꜣ ꜥꜣ.t Ta-Spd tꜣ ḫm.t
4	Tꜣ-šr.t-wrš nꜣ ḫm-ẖl.w I͗y-m-ḥtp
5	pꜣ ḫm mn ḏꜣ.t n Nḥm-s-ꜣs.t
6	tꜣ ꜥꜣ.t Tꜣ-šr.t-I͗mn nꜣ ḫm-ẖl.w I͗y-
7	-m-ḥtp pꜣ ḫm mn ḏꜣ.t
	¹Presumbaly between 2 and 5 lines are missng, judging from the format of the (preserved) papyrus.

¹ Presumbaly between 2 and 5 lines are missng, judging from the format of the (preserved) papyrus.

x+8	ı͗bd 3 pr.t sw ꜥrqı͗ r hn pꜣ hrw
x+9	bn-pw=k hb n=y r ḏı͗.t sḏm=y
x+10	pꜣy=k wḏꜣ ı͗rm nꜣ nty ı͗w=k ẖn=w
x+11	wn wꜥ bꜣk ı͗.ı͗r=y s ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr=k
x+12	n pꜣ wš rn=f ḏı͗=y ı͗n=w s
x+13	r Nḫb hb=w n=y ḏd
x+14	ı͗n=w n=k pꜣ bꜣk rn=f bn-pw=k
x+15	hb n=y ẖ.ṱ=f ı͗w=y dy
x+16	n Yb m-ı͗r srrꜥ
x+17	nꜣ nty ḥꜣ.t nꜣ ḫm pr r šp=w
x+18	wbꜣ=n ¹Transcription and translation of this sentence according to M. Depauw.

¹ Transcription and translation of this sentence according to M. Depauw.

vso1	pꜣ wš nty ı͗w pr sbt
vso2	ı͗.ı͗r-ḥr=k n-ı͗m=f ı͗w-ı͗w=k hb n=y
vso3	pꜣy=w wꜣḥ ı͗rm pꜣ mꜣꜥ nty
vso4	ı͗w=k n-ı͗m=f m-sꜣ ḫpr m-ı͗r
vso5	ḫpr ḫꜥꜣ n hyn ḫm
vso6	pr.w r pꜣy=f swn qd 4½
vso7	ẖr pꜣ rtb sw dy ḏd=w s n=n
vso8	ḏd ḫpr wꜥ ꜥḫl I͗y-m-ḥtp
vso9	pꜣ ḫm n N’.t r- dbꜣ hyn
vso10	nb r.gm=w s ı͗w=f ḏı͗ n-ı͗m=w r- dbꜣ
vso11	ḥḏ

vso x+12	ḫt(?) Pꜣ-ḏı͗-Mn
vso x+13	n=y my gm=f s
vso x+14	ḏd mn ḏꜣ.t n rmṯ nb nty
vso x+15	ṯꜣy r-r=k ḫpr ršy r- dbꜣ.ṱ=k
vso x+16	m-ı͗r ꜥw n ḥꜣ.ṱ r hb n=y
vso x+17	n pꜣy=k wḏꜣ r ḏı͗.t sḏm=y s ḏd

1	There is nothing wrong with Tamouthis Senior and with
2	her youngsters Rempnophris
3	Senior (and) Tastis Junior ..?..
4	Senorsis, the youngsters of Imouthes
5	Junior. There is nothing wrong with Naomsesis
6	[Senior] (and) Senamounis, the youngsters of I-
7	[mouthes Junior]. There is nothing wrong

x+8	30th of Phamenoth until today.
x+9	You have not sent to me to let me hear
x+10	your health and the situation you are in.
x+11	There exists a letter which I have made to you
x+12	at the time in question. I have let it brought
x+13	to Elkab. They have sent to me, saying
x+14	that they brought to you the letter in question. You have not
x+15	sent to me its contents while I was here
x+16	in Elephantine. You may not neglect
x+17	the things that impede the little grain which was bought
x+18	for us.

vso1	The moment the grain is ready
vso2	before you, you will sent to me
vso3	an answer to these and the place where
vso4	you are. But do not
vso5	let an end come to some little
vso6	grain while its value is 4½ kite
vso7	per artaba of wheat here. They have told to us
vso8	that it happened an iniquity with Imouthes
vso9	Junior in Thebes concerning some
vso10	gold coins since they found him while he was selling them for
vso11	money ..?.. [///]

vso x+12	[///] ..?.. Peteminis
vso x+13	[///] ..?.. for me. May he find
vso x+14	that there is nothing wrong with every man who
vso x+15	belongs to you. Thus has arosen joy because of you.
vso x+16	You may not wait to sent to me
vso x+17	about your health to let me hear it that

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Places (read out from edition)

Nḫb (places.xml#s30)

Yb (places.xml#s3)

N’.t (places.xml#s2)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
9230	man	Imouthes Junior	Ỉy-m-ḥtp pꜣ ḫm	pre-Coptic Egyptian

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios IV Philopator				-221 BCE -205 BCE	Dating by content. Dating by price level (according to M. Depauw);

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Literature

DatasetID	307662
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	46806
Author	Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307662 (= Pap. Padua, Museo Civico [unknown]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography).