Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43498

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43498
Publication Number	TAD D.1.11; Cowley 57; Sachau pap. 45 / taf. 38
Current Location	Cairo, Egyptian Museum (transferred to the museum in 1912)
Publication Permission Status	no permission for publication necessary

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]

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5

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

Transcription

Translation

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1	[To ]my[ la]⸢d⸣y ◦[...] Peace to Ytnˀ ¹TAD = “I ame well here.” Note that this means תנא is defective for תנה. There is no word division between the letters.. Peace
2	[...]BT no⸢t⸣[...] 2 fig-cakes, bread, da[tes ...]²TAD = “bread of dates”
3	[...] the ⸢good⸣s which ◦[...]◦◦ˀ ◦◦Ḥ◦◦[...]
4	[...]{⸢ˀÔ⸣še⸢ˁa⸣ \| ⸢Hô⸣še⸢ˁa⸣} ⸢y⸣ou (m.p.) peace[ ...]◦◦◦ your (m.p.) p⸢ea⸣ce ◦[...]
5	[...]◦ time ⸢K⸣[...] vacat

¹ TAD = “I ame well here.” Note that this means תנא is defective for תנה. There is no word division between the letters.
² TAD = “bread of dates”

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
42090	man	Hôšeˁa or ˀÔšeˁa	הושע or אושע	Aramaic, Imperial

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

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DatasetID	308165
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	89564
Author	James D. Moore
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308165 (= Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43498), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.