Pap. Paris, AIBL P. Clermont-Ganneau 5

Inventory Number	Pap. Paris, AIBL P. Clermont-Ganneau 5
Publication Number	SB VI 9251
Current Location	Paris, Sorbonne, Institute of Papyrology
Publication Status	published

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)	Clermont-Ganneau, Charles Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Localization of Text on Object	recto/verso
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand unknown, 2nd cent roman cursive
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	12	1
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Height of Line / Letter

Modern Title	Letter of a woman to her son
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	Letter of Senyris (woman) to her son Mathalei?.
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok small corrections possible?
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Woman Man
Comment on Gender	woman as writer of letter
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)
Comment on Religion	proskynema

Transcription

Translation

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1	Σενῦρις Μαθάλ̣ε̣ι̣ τῷ υἱῷ χαίρειν.
2	πρὸ μὲν παν ¹ l. πάν<των> σε εὔχομαι καὶ τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ
3	παρὰ τοῖς ἐνθάδε θεοῖς. ἐὰν ἔλθῃ Ἄγαθος πρὸς σὲ
4	παράδες ² l. παράδος αὐτῷ τὰ σκεύη καὶ τὰ κλισα καὶ δὸς τῷ
5	υἱῷ ἀβασκάντῳ Ὕ̣λ̣ᾳ ἀνκην ³l. ἀγγεῖον τοῦ οἰναρου ⁴ l. οἰναρ<ί>ου το ⁵ l. το<ῦ> κάτω
6	εἰς τὴν κέλλαν. ἀσπάζομαι τὴν σύμβιόν σου
7	καὶ τὰ τέκνα σου. ἀσπάζομαι Γέμελλαν καὶ τὴν
8	σύμβιον αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν μετέραν ⁶l. μητέρα αὐτῆς. ἐὰν
9	ἔλθῃ Ἀπολλώνιος καὶ Ἀπλονία, κατελαβα ⁷ l. καταλάβετε ὑμεῖ̣ς̣·
10	ἔρχεται γὰρ Ἀπολλώνιος εἰς Ἑρμουπόλιν καὶ εἰς
11	Λατωνπόλιν. ἀσπάζετ̣ε ⁸l. ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς ⁹ corr. ex ⟦η⟧μας Σώκρατος.
12	ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι.

¹ l. πάν<των>
² l. παράδος
³ l. ἀγγεῖον
⁴ l. οἰναρ<ί>ου
⁵ l. το<ῦ>
⁶ l. μητέρα
⁷ l. καταλάβετε
⁸ l. ἀσπάζεται
⁹ corr. ex ⟦η⟧μας

13	ἀπόδος εἰς Σοήνιν Ματά☓λ̣ε̣ ¹ l. Μαθάλε<ι> παρὰ Σενῦρις ² l. Σενύρι<ο>ς.

¹ l. Μαθάλε<ι>
² l. Σενύρι<ο>ς

1	Senyris to Mathalis, her son, greeting.
2	First of all I pray and make supplication for you
3	before all the gods in this place. When Agathos comes to you,
4	give to him the furniture(?) and the beds and give to his
5	son Hylas - may he be free from harm - the jar of wine from down there
6	into the cellar. I greet your wife
7	and your children. I greet Gemella and her
8	husband and her mother. When
9	Apollonios comes, and Apolonia, entertain them.
10	Apollonios, in fact, travels to Hermoupolis and to
11	Latopolis. Sokratos greets you.
12	I wish you Farewell.

13	Give (the letter) to Matalis in Syene, from Senyris.

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Places (read out from edition)

Ἑρμουπόλιν (places.xml#47)

Λατωνπόλιν (places.xml#31)

Σοήνιν (places.xml#8)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
32270	man	Agathos	Ἄγαθος	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				100 CE 299 CE	palaeographical dating;

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DatasetID	310311
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	27296
Papyri.info	ddbdp/sb;6;9251
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310311 (= Pap. Paris, AIBL P. Clermont-Ganneau 5), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.