Pap. Torino, Museo Egizio Cat. 1973

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. Torino, Museo Egizio Cat. 1973
Publication Number	LRL 02
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Thebes-West, Memnoneia (Memnoneia) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details	Deir el-Medina
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 4th nome (Pathyrites / Peri Thebas) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty: unknown
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rifaud, Jean-Jacques Certainty: unknown
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Thebes-West, Memnoneia
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 4th nome (Pathyrites / Peri Thebas) [Trismegistos]
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1823 and 1823
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Belzoni heirs Certainty:

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Rotation	around horizontal axis (top to bottom)
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Viewed from the recto, a big fragment is lost from the upper left part. The left part of the papyrus is damaged. The papyrus also has several gaps as a result of folding. "Broken into 13 (?) strips increasing in height from bottom to top." (Černý, Letters (1939), VII)
Comments on Object	The papyrus was folded from bottom to top. (According to: Černý, Letters (1939), XVIII) Based on the height, this object is a halved papyrus sheet.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto/verso
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	perpendicular and parallel
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	All line ends are not complete. Line one to six on the recto and line nine to fourteen are most affected by the damage. Writing is lost in several places due to some papyrus gaps as a result of folding.
Script, Primary	New Kingdom Hieratic
Language, Primary	Late Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout	The horizontal address is at the bottom of the verso. Between the last line and the address the scribe left a space. In this space and above the last line, a palimpsest is visible. The text takes up the entire height of the sheet and shows small margins.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	15	14
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	Letter
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Thutmose; alias: Tjari
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	A letter from the Necropolis scribe Thotmose who informs Boutehamun and Shedemduat that he has left the general Piankh in Elephantine and is going South towards Nubia. He urges them repeatedly to pray to Amun for his safe return. Furthermore he asks after some men and women and requests them to write him with news from home. Thotmose also tells some people not to neglect a certain Medja-policeman.
Location of Composition	on the way from Elephantine to Nubia (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	The fourth month of pr.t-season, day 21 is mentioned in line five on the recto.
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman Child
Comment on Gender	Recto Letter to a woman and a man: - Identifier of woman: title + name Someone is staying with a woman in Elephantine: - Identifier of woman: name Asking about different men, women and a girl - Identifier of woman and girl: name only Verso - Identifier of a child: girl of + name of a woman - Identifier of woman: name only
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	sẖꜣ.w Ḏḥw.tj-ms .w n pꜣ ḫr n sẖꜣ.w Bw-thꜣ-Jmn n pꜣ ḫr šmꜥ.yt n Jmn Šd.w-m-dwꜣ.t

2	m ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb m ḥs w .t Jmn-Rꜥ nswt-nṯr.w ḥr. j -jb ꜣbw tw=j ḏd n Jmn-Rꜥ nswt-nṯr.w nꜣ nṯr.w

3	n nꜣ ḏw.w n.tj tw=j m-ẖnw=w jmı͗ jnı͗.t=j

4	mtw=j mḥ qnj j:m=tn jw=j ꜥnḫ.k wj r-n.tj

5	m ꜣbd 4 pr .t sw 21 jrm=j pꜣy=j ḥr .j

6	wḏꜣ mj.tt mn m-dj=w btꜣ m[n]

7	jw=j ḫꜣꜥ=f m ꜣbw j:q ꜣ rı͗ jrm Ḥrr.t r ḏı͗.t wḏꜣ

8	ḫr-ꜥ=tn ḫr-ꜥ n Ḥm.t-šrj .t tꜣy=st ꜥḏd .t tꜣ šrj .t sẖꜣ.w

9	sẖꜣ.w Jmn-ḥtp.w Tꜣ-kꜣmn-šr.jt Šd.w-sw-mw.t nꜣ r m ṯ.w j:

10	pꜣy=k jr .t r-šꜣꜥ r pꜣ-hrw jw bw-pw=k ḏı͗.t jn.tw n=j wꜥ j:hꜣb

11	n=j ꜥ=tn n nfr n bjn m-dj nꜣ r m ṯ.w n.tj jw=w jy

12	mtw=w ḏı͗.t=st n sẖꜣ.w Qnj-ẖnm.wt jw=f <r> ḏı͗.t jnı͗.tw st n=j r-ḥr .j m-dj

13	nꜣ r m ṯ.w n.tj jy r-ḥr .j m ꜣbw yꜣ bw jrı͗ nꜣ

14	mtw=j tꜣy=k šꜥ.wt ḏı͗.t ꜥꜣ.y ḥꜣ.tj=j nꜣ mdw [///]

15	ḥꜣ.t mtw=k tm nnı͗ j:m=w mtw=k hꜣb nꜣy

vso1	n tꜣy ꜥḏd .t šrj.t n Ḥm.t-šrj.t ḫr-m-dj Jmn-ns.wt-tꜣ.wj Jmn-nb-ns.wt-tꜣ.wj

vso2	mtw=k ḏd n=f j:jnı͗=j m Yꜣꜥr pꜣ n.tj tw=j jm ḫr-m-dj

vso3	qdd n grḥ hrw jw ḥꜣ.tj=j m-sꜣ=tn ḫr-m-dj

vso4	Jmn-ẖnm.t-nḥḥ mtw=k ḏd n=f j n-jw=k r jnı͗.tw=j jw=j wḏꜣ.k wj ḫr-m-dj

vso5	n=j wꜥ šꜥ.t ḫr-m-dj tm ḫꜣꜥ nn n nꜣy=k sḥn.w

vso6	ky ḏd n r m ṯ.w-js.t Jmn-ḥtp.w Bꜣk .t -Jmn Ḥn.wt-ꜥꜣ.t tw=j ḏd n

vso7	Ḥr-n-bꜣkꜣ jmı͗=ṯn ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb rꜥ-nb sp-2 jḫ ḏd=tn n Jmn

vso8	Jmn-ṯḥn-nfr Mr -sw =s -gr jnı͗ <wj> jw=j ꜥnḫ.k wj mtw=j mḥ qnj=j j:m=tn m pꜣ wbꜣ¹Only the determinatives are preserved in line nine.

¹ Only the determinatives are preserved in line nine.

vso9	n Jmn-ns.wt-tꜣ.wj Jmn-nb-ns.wt-tꜣ.wj

vso10

mtw=k tm nnı͗ n mḏꜣ.w Kꜣ-sꜣ-jꜣ

vso11

mtw=k ḏı͗.t n=f sḥn ḫr-r-ꜥ

vso12

mtw=k ḏd n=f bn r m ṯ sḥn.w

vso13

m-dj pꜣy=j ḥr.j mn


vso14	sẖꜣ.w Ṯꜣ-rꜣ-y n pꜣ ḫr n sẖꜣ.w Bw-th-Jmn šmꜥ.yt n Jmn Šd.w-m-dwꜣ.t

1	The scribe of the necropolis Thutmose [to the scribe of the necropolis Butehamun and the chantress of Amun Shedmduat:]

2	[In life], prosperity, and health (and) <in> the favor of Amun-Re, [king of] the gods, who is in the middle of Elephantine. [\|I pray to Amun-Re, king of the gods, and to the gods\|]

3	of the mountains in which I am, to let [\|me be brought back\|] [///]

4	and fill (my) embrace with you while I am alive. Following: [///]

5	in the fourth month of pr.t-season, day 21, with {me} my superior [///]

6	well-being likewise. There is no wrong with them . There [is no] [///]

7	I left him in Elephantine, who stayed (there), <together with> Hereret ¹Translation of this sentence according to Hafemann, pTurin 1973 (September 2016).in order to cause [\|well-being\|]. [///]

¹ Translation of this sentence according to Hafemann, pTurin 1973 (September 2016).

8	How are you? How are Hemet-sherit, her little girl, (and) the scribe [///],

9	the scribe Amenhotep, Takamen-sherit, Shedsumut (and) the men who [///] ¹Wente, Ramesside Letters (1990), 188 suggests that "What is your" is missing.

¹ Wente, Ramesside Letters (1990), 188 suggests that "What is your" is missing.

10	your doing (nothing) until today without having sent a [\|single\|] (letter) ¹Lit.: "while you were not having caused a single (letter) to be brought”. [\|to me\|]. [\|Send\|]

¹ Lit.: "while you were not having caused a single (letter) to be brought”.

11	me your condition, whether good or bad, by the men who will co[me] [///]

12	and they shall give it to the scribe Qenikhnum. He will send it up to me [///] [\|by\|]

13	the men who come up from Elephantine. Oh, the who [///] do not [///]

14	and your letter will cause my heart to be great (at) the words [///]

15	before and do not be weary of them and s[\|end\|] [\|the\|] [///]

vso1	to this small girl of Hemet-sherit. Moreover, [///] ¹Suggestion of Wente, Ramesside Letters (1990), 189: "do not neglect taking water to”. A[mun-of-the-Thrones-of-the]-Two-Lands A[mun, lord-of-the-Thrones-of-the]-Two-Lands

¹ Suggestion of Wente, Ramesside Letters (1990), 189: "do not neglect taking water to”.

vso2	and pray to him to bring <me> back <from> Yaar, the (place) where I am. More[over], [///] ¹Suggestion of Wente, Ramesside Letters (1990), 189: "I do not".

¹ Suggestion of Wente, Ramesside Letters (1990), 189: "I do not".

vso3	sleep at night (and by) day while <my> heart is longing for you. Moreo[ver], [///] ¹Suggestion of Wente, Ramesside Letters (1990), 189: "do not neglect taking water to".

¹ Suggestion of Wente, Ramesside Letters (1990), 189: "do not neglect taking water to".

vso4	Amun-United-with-Eternity, and ask him whether he will bring me back safe. Moreover, [///] ¹Suggestion of Wente, Ramesside Letters (1990), 189: "do not neglect sending".

¹ Suggestion of Wente, Ramesside Letters (1990), 189: "do not neglect sending".

vso5	me a letter. Moreover, do not show neglect to your commission[s] [///]

vso6	Another matter for the workmen Amenhotep, Bak(et)amun, Henut-aat [///] [\|I pray to\|]

vso7	Horus-of-Kuban to give you daily life, prosperity and health -twice. Oh please, pray to Amun [///],

vso8	Amun-of-the-Beautiful-Encounter (and) Mereseger to bring <me> back alive and I fill [\|my embrace with you in the forecourt\|]

vso9	of Amun-of-the-Thrones-of-the-Two-Lands Amun, <lord>-of-the-Thrones-of-the-Two-Lands

vso10

and do not be weary of the Medja-policeman [|Kasai|] [///]

vso11

and give him a commission, seeing that ¹According to: Caminos, Miscellanies (1954), 178.[///]

¹ According to: Caminos, Miscellanies (1954), 178.

vso12

and tell him that nobody is employed [///]

vso13

⸢///⸣ with my superior. There is no [///]

vso14

The scribe of the necropolis Tjari to the scribe B[utehamun and the chantress Shedemduat.]

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Places (read out from edition)

ꜣbw (places.xml#s3)

Yꜣꜥr (places.xml#s80)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
10100	man	Amenhotep	Jmn-ḥtp	(none)

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ramesses XI	10				year 10 of Ramesses XI.: based on the mentioned date on the recto and the comparison with other letters from the correspondence between Thotmose and different people (see Wente, Letters (1967), 1-17);

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Literature

Černý, Jaroslav, Late Ramesside Letters (1939). (VII, 2-5, no. 2)
Hafemann, Ingelore, pTurin 1973, Brief des Djehuti-mesu an Bu-teh-Imen und die Sched-em-duat (2016). ()
Janssen, Jac J., Late Ramesside Letters and Communications (1991). (pls. 95-96)
Porten, Bezalel, The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change (1996). (A8)
Rossi, Francesco, Papyrus de Turin. (1869). (pls. CXXIX-CXXX)
Spiegelberg, M. W., Correspondances du temps des rois-prêtres: publiées avec autres fragments épistolaires de la Bibliothèque Nationale (1895). (28-29, 36-37)
Vittmann, Günter, Hieratic Texts (1996). (64-67)
Wente, Edward Frank, Late Ramesside Letters (1967). (20-21, no. 2)
Wente, Edward Frank, Letters from Ancient Egypt (1990). (188-189, no. 311)

DatasetID	310584
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 310584 (= Pap. Torino, Museo Egizio Cat. 1973), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.