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| Collection | Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43501 |
| Publication Number | TAD B.7.4; Sachau pap. 48 / taf. 39; Cowley 59 |
| Current Location | Cairo, Egyptian Museum (transferred to the museum in 1912) |
| Publication Permission Status | permission for publication upon enquiry only |
| Publication Status | partly published |
| 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 |
| Finder (= First Purchaser) | Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) Certainty: high |
| 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 | (other) |
| Date of Acquisition for the Intitution | between 1912 and 1912 |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum Certainty: |
| Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) | Simon, James Certainty: high |
| Object Type | papyrus |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | Right and lower parts broken off in undetermined extent. |
| Localization of Text on Object | recto/verso | |
| Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (recto) | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | Demotic: All line beginnings as well as entire lower part broken off in undetermined extent. | |
| Script, Primary | Aramaic, Imperial | |
| Script, additional A | Early Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Aramaic, Imperial | |
| Language, additional A | Early Demotic | |
| Specialities in Writing Direction | Demotic on recto parallel to fibers. Aramaic on verso parallel to fibers. | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Recto: Medium line pitch. The text shows a broad upper margin. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 8+y | 1 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) | 60 | |
| Column Height (in mm) | 85 | |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Line Distance | x+60 x 85+y | |
| Modern Title | Sale contract (Demotic) with mention of document type and scribe (Aramaic) |
| Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | In the Demotic part a sale contract is partly preserved all details remain unknown due to the fragmentary status of the entire text. Mibtahiah is mentioned as first contractant, a man whose name is lost as second contractant. The Aramaic text on the verso mentions the document type and the scribe. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine / Syene Lower Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Script = Language Bilingual |
| Gender | Man Woman |
| Comment on Gender | - Activity of woman: contractant |
| Religion | unknown |
| Transcription | Translation | Pictures | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 There may be traces of ink in this space. |
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| Places (read out from edition) |
| ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
| 11560 | man | Artaxerxes I | Rṱḫšsš | Aramaic, Imperial |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Artaxerxes I | -465 BCE -424 BCE | Internal dating, with name of the ruler. Dating by palaeography, dating by prosopography; |
| Cairo_EM_JdE_43501_SAC |
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| CC-BY-NC-SA |
| DatasetID | 310482 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Author | Jan Moje (Demotic); James D. Moore (Aramaic) |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 310482 (= Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43501), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); James D. Moore (Aramaic). |
