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Text: People
Text: Dates
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Persons & Deities

Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43494

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43494
Publication Number	TAD A.3.2
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

Localization of Text on Object	recto/verso
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	parallel and perpendicular
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting	thick strokes, unpracticed hand
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7	7
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	fragmentary letter re Sandals, Clothing, Silver
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	fragmentary letter re Sandals, Clothing, Silver
Multilingualism	Monolingual

Text

Transcription

Translation

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a

R

1	ביתאלנדר
2	משאנ 1 זי
3	ר ד ס

x+4	חת 1
x+5	זיכתנ
x+6	וכרבלה 1
x+7	צ א צ ננ 2

b

V

vso1	ותפסה 1
vso2	ויהב לי
vso3	זכריה כרש
vso4	זי

vso x+5
vso x+6	אמרת לי
vso x+7	יהב ל ה ג ד ר ו כ

a

R

1	Bethelnadar
2	1 [pair of] sandals of
3

x+4	1
x+5	of¹Reconstruction by Porten, TAD A3.2linen.
x+6	and 1 hat
x+7

¹ Reconstruction by Porten, TAD A3.2

2

V

vso1	and 1 tpsh
vso2	and he gave me
vso3	Zechariah (1) karsh
vso4	which

vso x+5
vso x+6	you said to me
vso x+7	he gave to PN

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
9975		Bethelnadar	ביתאלנדר

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				-499 BCE -425 BCE	;

Pictures

Cairo_EM_JdE_43494_SAC

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Literature

Porten, Bezalel & Yardeni, Ada, Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt, 1: Letters. Appendix: Aramaic Letters from the Bible. (A3.2)

DatasetID	308161
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	89394
Author	Lisa Cleath
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308161 (= Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43494), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Lisa Cleath.