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Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43495

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43495
Publication Number TAD D.1.20; Cowley 4; Sachau pap. 41 / taf. 36
Current Location Cairo, Egyptian Museum (transferred to the museum in 1912)
Publication Permission Status no permission for publication necessary

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 excavation or purchase
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation (undecidable)
Mounting (unknown)

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object verso/recto
Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 4
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragmentary Letter. Re: Barley
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1[...]...[...]
2[...]תשכחנ שערנ [...]
3[...] תנה כענת [...]
4[...]ת אספמת הלו ...
5[...]לינ מנ זי נפק[...]
V
1[...] עבדו לי ◦[...]
2[...]◦שינ ואפ ל[...]
3[...] הקשט אפ[...]
4[...] זי צבית1Following TAD with reservation. The first character is written with two strokes and may be a י rather than the hook of a צ. What TAD reads as ב clearly has at least one extra stoke on its head. This may be a horn of an א or read as a ס. בגו [...]

1 Following TAD with reservation. The first character is written with two strokes and may be a י rather than the hook of a צ. What TAD reads as ב clearly has at least one extra stoke on its head. This may be a horn of an א or read as a ס.
R
1[...]...[...]
2[...]⸢you must⸣ find barley [...]
3[...] there. Now, [...]
4[...]⸢T⸣ ˀEspemet. Inde[ed ...]
5[...]LYN (m.p.) from which [...] left / whomever left
V
1[...] they served me ◦[...]
2[...]◦ŠYN (n.m.). And moreover, L[...]
3[...]he made radiant/ vindicated. Moreover[...]
4[...] which I/you desired within [...]
Cairo_EM_JdE_43495_SAC
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
42075 man ˀEspemet אספמת Aramaic, Imperial

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
-525 BCE -399 BCE ;

 

Pictures

Cairo_EM_JdE_43495_SAC
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 308162
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 89573
Author James D. Moore,
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308162 (= Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43495), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore, .