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Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.90a-b |
Publication Number | TAD B.3.6; Kraeling 5 |
Publication Permission Status | no permission for publication necessary |
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: |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | Wilbour, Charles Edwin Certainty: |
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution | bequest |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Wilbour, Theodora Certainty: |
Object Type | papyrus |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Mounted in plastic. |
Localization of Text on Object | recto/verso | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (verso) and perpendicular (recto) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
Script, Primary | Aramaic, Imperial | |
Language, Primary | Aramaic, Imperial | |
Comments on Handwriting | It is unclear if the writer, Haggai, mispells (ll. 5, 8) or has assimilated the dentals, yĕladĕtî > yĕlattî. Since both dentals are present in line 6 but the l and y are reveresed, one may conclude that all forms are errors (contra Kraeling). | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 17 | 1 |
Height of Line / Letter |
Modern Title | Testamentary Manumission |
Ancient Archives | Anani ענני |
Ancient Author of Text | Meshullam bar Zaccur |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Mešullam manumits his female-servant, Tapamet, and gives ownership of Mešullam's and Tapamet's daughter Yahyišmaˁ to her. Tapamet and Yahyišmaˁ then pledge to stay in the service of Mešullam until his death. Mešullam's son Zakkûr is explicitly cited; he has no claim to Tapamet when Mešullam dies. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Comments on Text | Scribal dividing line between two sections of the document. |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Woman Man |
Comment on Gender | Maidservant and her daughter manumitted. |
Religion | unknown |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 A scribal mark separates these
two lines.
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
20015 | man | Artaxerxes | ארתחשסש / ארתחש | Aramaic, Imperial |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Artaxerxes I | 38 | Sivan | 20 | -427 June 12 BCE | ; |
DatasetID | 307764 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 89457 |
Author | Verena Lepper, James D. Moore (Collated, reedited) |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307764 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.90a-b), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper, James D. Moore (Collated, reedited). |