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Pap. Cairo EM JdE 43501

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Metadata

Collection

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

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
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

Object Type	papyrus
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Right and lower parts broken off in undetermined extent.

Text Basic Information

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

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Sale contract (Demotic) with mention of document type and scribe (Aramaic)
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Ḥmny?
Text Types	documentary documentary | legal document
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

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
11560	man	Artaxerxes I	Rṱḫšsš	Aramaic, Imperial

 

Dates

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;

 

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Literature

• Cowley, Arthur Ernest, Aramaic Papyri of the fifth Century B. C. (1957). (cat. 59)
• Porten, Bezalel & Yardeni, Ada, Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt, 2: Contracts (1989). (B.7.4)
• Sachau, Eduard, Aramäische Papyrus und Ostraka aus einer jüdischen Militärkolonie zu Elephantine. Altorientalische Sprachdenkmäler des 5. Jahrhunderts vor Chr. (1911). (cat. 48)

 

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).