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Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43466

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43466
Publication Number TAD A.6.1
Current Location Cairo, Egyptian Museum (transferred to the museum in 1912)

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 archaeological excavation
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution partage
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty:

Object

Object Type papyrus

Text Basic Information

Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting perpendicualr to the fibers on the recto parral to the joins 3-loine address on verso parallel to fibers
Comments on Text Layout
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 3
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Letter regarding a share
Text Types
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content This is a fragmentary letter from Achaemenes, Bagadana, Peteese, Harwodi and their colleagues to the satrap Arsames regarding a share. It illustrates the bureaucratic practice of "putting everything in writing".

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1על מראנ ארשמ עבדיכ אחמנש וכנותה בגדנ וכנותה וספרי מדינתא שלמ מראנ אלהיא כלא
2ישאלו שגיא בכל עדנ וכעת לנ שימ טעמ מנתא למ זי יהבה במדינתא אתר זי פ
3מפרש זנ זנ ירח כירח הוו שלחנ עלי אפ נשתונא כתיב יהיב לנ כעת
4תחו
V
vso1עלמראנ ארשמ זי במצרינ עבדיכ אחמנש וכנותה אזדכריא בגדנ וכנותה
vso2דיניא פטאסי וכנותה ספרי מדינת פמ נס ונפרע חרוצ וכנותהו ספרי מדינת
vso3עלימ סינערש אזדכרא כנתהמ ב 10 + 3 + 3 + 3 למרחשונ שנת 20 + 10 + 3 + 3 + 2 פתחמארתחשסש מלכא
R
1[To our lord Arsa]mes, your servants Achaemenes and his colleagues, Bagadana and his colleagues, and the scribes of the province. May [all] the gods (2) abundantly seek after] the welfare of our lord
2[at] all times. And now, an order was i[ss]ued to us, saying: "The share which is given in the province, where [...]
3[...] separately, each kind, [mo]nth by month, do send to me. Moreover, a rescript was written (and) given to us. Now, [...]
4[...]
V
vso1[To] our lord Arsames [w]ho is in Egypt, your [serv]ants Achaemenes and his colleagues the heralds, Ba[gadana and his colleagues]
vso2the judges, Peteisi and his colleagues the scribes of the province of Pamunpara(?), Harudj and his colleagues the scribes of the provin[ce of...]
vso3[PN] servant of Sinerish the herald, their colleague. On 19 Marheshvan, year 38 of [King] Artaxerxes [...]
308134_R_001
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308134_V_001
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Cairo_EM_JdE_43466_SAC
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Places (read out from edition)
  • מצרינ (places.xml#c1)
  • ונפרע (places.xml#r55)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    11910 man Achaemenes אחמנש

     

    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    -427 November 6 BCE ;

     

    Pictures

    308134_R_001
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    308134_V_001
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    Cairo_EM_JdE_43466_SAC
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    Literature

     

    DatasetID 308134
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Trismegistos 89423
    Author Verena Lepper
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 308134 (= Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43466), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper.