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Pap. Elephantine, excavation DAIK no. Reg. 17224 W

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Pap. Elephantine, excavation DAIK no. Reg. 17224 W
Publication Number P.Eleph. DAIK 2
Publication Status published

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 archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type papyrus
Dating between -246 and -221
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left side.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) perpendicular (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) broken at left
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, ptolemaic cursive
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Enteuxis (Petition to the king)
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | petition to the king (enteuxis, mkmk)
Summary of Content Petition (exteuxis) to the king of Ptolemaios, son of Simalion, concerning the inheritance of a house of his grandmother.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text ok
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender grandmother
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1 -?- τ̣ο̣υ̣ Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Σιμαλίωνος. Μητροδώρας γὰρ τῆς γάρ μάμας 1 l. μάμμης μου
2 -?- ̣τρός μο̣υ̣ ἀδελφὸς συγγραφὰς οἰκίας ἧς κατέλιπεν
3 -?- μήπω ἐν ἡλικίαι εἶναι, ἧς καθ̣ήκει ἐμοὶ τὰ ἡμιση 2 l. ἡμίσεα
4 -?- ς μου ἀπομερίσαι μοι τὸ ἐπιβάλλον μέρος οὐχ ἡ ̣
5 -?- ̣ιον ἐπέ̣τρεψά σοι ̣ ̣ ̣ τούτων καὶ ἐὰν ἐνδειξῶσι
6 -?- ἀποδοῦναι μοι τὰ μέρη τὰ ἐπιβάλλοντά μοι Πετη-
7 -?- ̣ αδ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ἔ̣σομαι διὰ σέ, βασιλεῦ, τῶν πάντων εὐεργέτην
8 -?- εὐτύχει.

1 l. μάμμης
2 l. ἡμίσεα
R
1(to the king Ptolemaios---) from ---, son of Ptolemaios, grandson of Simalion. Since my grandmother Metrodora
2--- according to the contract --- of the brother of my mother? --- of a house, which she? has left
3--- not yet being of age, of which the half belongs to me
4--- to attribute to me the due part, (he/she) did not ---
5--- I have turned (over?) to you --- and if they point out
6--- to give to me the parts belonging to me, Pete-?
7--- I shall meet with justice through your agency, king, benefactor of all,
8--- Farewell.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
31285 woman Metrodora Μητροδώρας Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
-246 BCE -221 BCE palaeographical dating;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309263
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 78214
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;II
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309263 (= Pap. Elephantine, excavation DAIK no. Reg. 17224 W), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.