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Collection | Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
Inventory Number | Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43491 |
Publication Number | TAD B.5.4; Sachau pap. / taf. 35; Cowley 47; |
Current Location | Cairo, Egyptian Museum (transferred to the museum in 1912) |
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 Type | papyrus |
Localization of Text on Object | recto | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | perpendicular (recto) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Object in Egypt. Conservation status unknown. | |
Script, Primary | Aramaic, Imperial | |
Language, Primary | Aramaic, Imperial | |
Comments on Handwriting | Hand unidentified. | |
Comments on Text Layout | The documents published by Kraeling, help establish, with certainty the formula of a contract concerning the exchange of property. TAD correctly reorders and joins the fragments of Sachau pap. 37. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | x+8 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter |
Modern Title | Fragment from Gift-of-House Contract |
Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Fragment of a defension clause and partial penalty from a contract concerning a house. Parties are unknown. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine / Syene Lower Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: unknown) |
Comments on Text | Traces of the word "house" (ln. 7) in the legal formula in which the item of the contractual extachange ought to be listed, confirms that this is a contract over the sale of a house. |
Multilingualism | Script = Language Monolingual |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||
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Places (read out from edition) |
DatasetID | 308158 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 89482 |
Author | James D. Moore |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 308158 (= Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43491), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore. |