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Collection | Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P) |
Inventory Number | Le. Berlin P. 10470 |
Current Location | magazine |
Publication Status | published |
Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: unknown |
Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Discovery | (unknown) Certainty: |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | (unknown) Certainty: |
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution | (unknown) |
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) | Borchardt, Ludwig Certainty: |
Object Type | leather |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | The object is broken into several fragments, partly without direct join. There are many large holes. |
Localization of Text on Object | two-sided | |
Inks and Pigments | type unclear polychrome black and red | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Recto: The three preserved columns are very fragmentary. The text in the first column is now almost illegible due to the darkness of this object. Lines from the beginning as well as from the end of each column are lost. In addition, spaces complicate the understanding of the text. The ink traces of the second column are completely illegible. Verso: ink traces | |
Script, Primary | "Mittelhieratische Kanzleischrift" | |
Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
Comments on Handwriting | "recht sorgfältige mittelhieratische Kanzleischrift mit kräftigem Pinselstrich" (According to: Fischer-Elfert, 60) | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | col. I: x+17+y col. II: x+17+y col. III: x+12+y | ink traces |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 200 | |
Column Height (in mm) | 340 | |
Height of Line / Letter |
Modern Title | relocation of a servant woman |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | This object contains the steps which were necessary to transfer the servant woman Senbet, daughter of Senmout to Elephantine with consent of her previous owners. |
Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Woman Man |
Comment on Gender | A servant woman is to be transferred to Elephantine with consent of her previous owners. |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 For this term see Vittmann, Hieratic Texts (1996),36, n. 9. 2 According to: Quirke, The Administration of Egypt (1990), 211 no. 5. Helck, Historisch-biografische Texte (1975), 53 reads here and in line 5: spꜣ.t |
1 See Vittmann, Hieratic Texts (1996),, 37, n. 17 for the interpretation of this phrase. 2 i. e. her owners 3 Also possible to read: nꜣ smı͗ n=f „what has been reported to him“.
1 According to Quirke, The Administration of Egypt (1990), 51. Smither, The Slave-Girl Senbet (1948), 32 reads: m hrw pn „on this day“.
1 According to: Vittmann, Hieratic Texts (1996), 38, note 39.
1 Lit.: „What has been ordered is given in the face of the servantwoman Senbet“
1 Lit. "as".
1 Lit. "in the head" 2 Helck, Berlin P. Berlin 10470 (1988), 38 translates "Archivar" and probably thought of sꜣw sẖꜣ.w. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
11850 | man | Amenemhet | Jmn-m-ḥꜣ.t | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Second Intermediate Period - New Kingdom | palaeographical dating according to: Burkard - Fischer-Elfert, VOHD 19,4 (1994), 60; 13th dynasty (Helck, Berlin P. Berlin 10470 (1988), 35); 12th-18th dynasty (Gardiner, who has published the notes of Smither, The Slave-Girl Senbet (1948), 33); 13th-early 17th dynasty (Quirke, The Administration of Egypt (1990), 203); |
DatasetID | 310581 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Author | Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 310581 (= Le. Berlin P. 10470), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel. |