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Papr. Rome, Private Collection Monneret de Villard X

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Collection

Inventory Number	Papr. Rome, Private Collection Monneret de Villard X
Publication Number	P.MargoliouthMonneret II 2
Current Location	private collection
Publication Permission Status	no permission for publication necessary
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Monneret, M. G. Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	The western bank of the nile opposite Aswan
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	paper
Dating of Object	Abbasid rule (I) 1. 1. 801 - 12. 31. 1517 CE
Dating	between 801 and 1517
Range of Preservation	(undecidable)

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	(unknown/uncertain)
Inks and Pigments	unknown
Script, Primary	Arabic
Language, Primary	Arabic
Comments on Text Layout	Localization of the text unknown/uncertain, Text layout unknown.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	10

Text Content

Modern Title	Charm for discovering a thief
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	Amulet charm
Summary of Content	Charm for discovering a thief using a wooden hammer with an iron nail, and writing round the nail some magical names.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	The third of these names is clearly the Hebrew (thirty), hence the first and second are likely to be the Latin or Greek tres, trias. The fourth word is obscure; perhaps it is meant for IKSHIF (reveal)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	unknown

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Translation

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1	باب تخريج السرقة تاخذ دقماق خشبة
2	فيه مسمار حديد وتكتب حوالي المسمار هذا
3	الاربع اسامي وترفع الدقماق بين
4	اصبعين رجلين تم تسمي المتهوم تم
5	ترقي عليه ايضا بالاسماء فان دارو
6	ولا تذكر غيره وترقي على الاسما فا
7	يمن دار عند ذكر اسمه فهو السارق
8	وهى هذه الاسما
9	ترش بربوش اشلشيم
10	ـــ ــــ اكشع ـــــ

1	Section of extraction of Theft. You are to take a wooden hammer
2	in which is an iron nail; and you are to write round the nail these
3	four names and raise the hammer between
4	two hoes, then name the suspected person then
5	chant over him also the names, and if it revolves,
6	You need not mention any one else. So chant over the names
7	And at the mention of whosesoever name it revolves, he is the thief
8	And these are the names
9	Trsh Brbwsh ¹Margoliouth translated it as TryushAshlshim
10	Akshaʿ

¹ Margoliouth translated it as Tryush

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Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Arabic Period				801 January 1 CE	;

Literature

Margoliouth, D. S & Holmyard, E. J, Arabic documents from the Monneret Collection (1931). (pp. 258-259.)

DatasetID	309584
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	464026
Author	Ahmed Kamal
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309584 (= Papr. Rome, Private Collection Monneret de Villard X), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.