Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43491
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Metadata
Collection
| 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) |
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
Text Basic Information
| 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. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
x+8 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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Text Content
| 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 |
Text
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Literature
| 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. |
