Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43496

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43496
Publication Number	TAD D.1.7; Cowley 58; Sachau pap. 42 / taf. 37
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 Details	Unknown
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	excavation finds
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1906 and 1907
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) Certainty: high

Object Type	papyrus
Rotation	around horizontal axis (top to bottom)
Range of Preservation	complete
Mounting	framed between glass

Localization of Text on Object	recto/verso
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	parallel (verso) and perpendicular (recto)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting	The paleography differs from letter to letter. Clearly this is not a professional hand.
Comments on Text Layout	The text is apparently a two line missive written transversa charta. The verso then is an address line. The fragment is second of four folded parts.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	2	1
Height of Line / Letter

Modern Title	Letter Fragment
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	Openining greeting. Content of missive lost.
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Unknown (Certainty: unknown)
Comments on Text	This piece is difficult. Sachau believed that it was perhaps Hebrew. Cowley could not decipher it. TAD reads it as Hebrew, or at least with Hebraisms. Ungnad argues that it is Aramaic. All speculate that it may be a writing exercise. (Rem: the Aramaic word divisions in the Accordance Bible Software TAD module differ from that in TAD, but the translation is the same. Thus, the Accordance is translation and text do not agree.)
Multilingualism	Monolingual
Religion	unknown

Transcription

Translation

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1	אתנ אלהי כלי שלמכ ישלמ ¹Previous editors read an initial מ, which does not match the stroke pattern of this hand.
2	ישלמ כל דלי צ ק ד ר תנ ישלמ V
3	בר עדרי עבדי \| בר שבתי

¹ Previous editors read an initial מ, which does not match the stroke pattern of this hand.

1	[...And as for y]ou, my god shall make all of your peace whole.
2	[... he shall] make whole. All belonging to me ... shall make whole. V
1	[... PN] son of {Idri\|A/Ob(a)di} son of Shabbethai

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
24590	man	PN son of {Idri\|A/Ob(a)di} son of Shabbethai	...בר עדרי / עבדי בר שבתי	Aramaic, Imperial

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
27th dynasty					Scholarly deduction;

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DatasetID	308163
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	89560
Author	James D. Moore,
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308163 (= Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43496), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore, .