Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43485

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43485
Publication Number	TAD B.4.3;
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]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type

papyrus

Text Basic Information

Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial

Text Content

Modern Title	contract
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene Lower Egypt, 1st nome (Certainty: )
Comments on Text	This is thought to be a copy of Ber. P 13493, but there are many discrepancies between the two texts.
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	ב 20 111 111 11 לירח ... הושע
2	בר הודויה ואחיאב בר גמריה
3	מה[חסננ ביבלאספמת
4	על ידנ שערנ
5	טלפחנ ארדבנ 20
6	כל שערנ וטלפחנ
7	לגברנ 111 11 ¹Possible erasure of "1"ל
8	²an erased horizontal stroke begins the line and illegible palimpsest across lineטלפחנ ארדב 1 20 ~~20 11~~
9	עבורא זנה סונ
10	בספרא זנה וי
11	מאתה ורבני
12	עבורא זי נתנת
13	במנ ינ ת בבית מלכא
14	זי יהבת על ידנ
15	זי לא חלקנ פצלנ
16	אוצרא
17	אלהא כספ זוז
18	ובי זי לבננ ו
19	³traces of a palimpsest on this line misread as the overwritten text in TADלי אנת שלט למאחד
20	זי כתב מנעלא ו
21	כתב הושע בכפי
22	שהדיא שורי בר כרז⁴It is unclear if the witnesses wrote with their own hands
23	נשכעדרי בר נבנתנ
24	בגדת בר פסמשכ

¹ Possible erasure of "1"
² an erased horizontal stroke begins the line and illegible palimpsest across line
³ traces of a palimpsest on this line misread as the overwritten text in TAD
⁴ It is unclear if the witnesses wrote with their own hands

1	On the 28th of [the month of Phaophi, year 3 of King Xerxes, said Hôšeˁa]
2	son of[ Hô]davyah and ˀAḥ[îˀab son of Gemaryah ...]
3	M◦(◦)[... ]to ˀEsp⸢me⸣[t ... you gave]
4	into our hands barley, [# ardabs ...,]
5	lentils, ⸢20⸣([+]) ardab [...]
6	(in) total, [barl]⸢ey⸣ and mixed lentil[s: # ardab ...]
7	as (for) persons, [dist]⸢ributively⸣ 2, which/who to/for[... ...]
8	lentils, 1 ardab [...]
9	this gr[ain ](to) Syene [...]
10	[th]is docume⸢nt⸣ and Y◦[... ...]
11	the century-unit and the commanders of [the troops ...]
12	the grain which you gave ⸢t⸣[o ...]
13	by amount[ to ]the ⸢ho⸣use [the ]king[ ...]
14	which you gave into [our ]hand[ ...]
15	which are not ⸢share⸣[s ...]
16	[the] treasury[ ◦◦]◦◦◦ ◦[... ...]
17	the god, silver zuz [...]
18	and a brick house and ◦[... ...]
19	to me, ⸢you (m.s.) ha⸣ve right to ⸢sei⸣[ze ...]
20	which (is) writ(ten) abo⸢ve⸣. [(There is) no lawsuit ...]
21	H⸢ôšeˁa⸣ wrote with [his ]⸢o⸣wn hands[ ...]
22	Witnesses. Šûrî son of[ Kurz (...)]
23	Nuškuˁid⸢r⸣î son of Nabuna⸢ta⸣[n (...)]
24	Bagada[ta so]⸢n of⸣ Psamšek [(...)]

vso 1

[Document (of ... which) Hôšeˁa (son of Hôdavyah) and ˀAḥîˀab (son of Gemaryah)] wro⸢te⸣[ for ˀEspemet (...)]

Cairo_EM_JdE_43485_SAC

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Places (read out from edition)

יב (places.xml#s3)

סונ (places.xml#s8)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
2970	man	Ahiab bar Gemariah	אחיאב בר גמריה	Aramaic, Imperial

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
			28		TAD speculates 28.2.3 Xerxes = 17.02.483 BCE;

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Cairo_EM_JdE_43485_SAC

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Literature

DatasetID	308152
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	89472
Author	James D. Moore
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308152 (= Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43485), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore .