Pap. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale 196, III

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale 196, III
Current Location	Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Thebes-West, Memnoneia (Memnoneia) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details	Deir el-Medineh
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 4th nome (Pathyrites / Peri Thebas) [Trismegistos]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 4th nome (Pathyrites / Peri Thebas) [Trismegistos]
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Blackman, Aylward Manley Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Rotation	around horizontal axis (top to bottom)
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The height is complete. A large papyrus piece is missing from the upper left corner of the recto. In addition, a strip of about 30 mm is lost from the right margin of the recto. There is a gap at the beginning of line 2 on the recto / line 9 on the verso.
Comments on Object	The papyrus was folded from bottom to top. (According to: Vittmann, Hieratic (1996), 68)

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)	The loss of the ends of lines 1 to 3 on the recto and lines 7 to 11 on the verso covers more than half of these lines. In addition, the beginnings of line 2 on the recto / line 9 on the verso are lost.
Script, Primary	"Neuhieratische Kanzleischrift"
Language, Primary	Late Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout	Palimpsest The addressees is immediately below the last line of the text of the verso.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	11	11
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	Letter
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	The general’s singer Pentahut-resu wrote from Elephantine to Butehamun and to four other individuals in Western Thebes. After the typical salutation-formula Pentahut-resu asked a woman to take care of the children and his father. In addition, he instructs her to cause a spear to be made and to prepare date(-syrup)(?). Then Pentahut-resu addresses Butehamun and tells him that he has received the letters from his father. The following notes are not very clear, but it seems that Pentahut-resu had consulted the oracle of Khnum on behalf of Butehamun’s father. The response seems to have been positive.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman Child
Comment on Gender	two women are addressed in this letter
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	ḥs .w n pꜣ jm.j-rꜣ-mšꜥ Pꜣ-n-tꜣ-ḥw.t-rs
2	Jmn sẖꜣ.w Bw-th-Jmn
3	mḥnk ꜣḥ-mn.w ḥmw.w šmꜥ.yt-n-Jmn-Rꜥ
4	nswt-nṯr.w Ḥm .t -šrj .t ¹The sitting man was written instead of the sitting woman.šmꜥ.yt-n-Jmn-Rꜥ Šd.w-m-dwꜣ.t m ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb m ḥs.w
5	Jmn-Rꜥ nswt-nṯr.w r-n.tj tw=j ḥr ḏd n Jmn-Rꜥ-Ḥr-ꜣḫ.tj jw=f wbn
6	ḥtp n H̱nmw Stj.t ꜥnqn.t nṯr.w nb.w ꜣbw jmı͗
7	n=tn ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb ꜥḥꜥ.w qꜣı͗ jꜣw.t ꜥꜣ nfr rꜥ-nb ḥnꜥ-ḏd
8	mtw =j =ṯ ptr nꜣ ꜥḏd šrj m-jrı͗ jrı͗.t btꜣ
9	r-r=w mtw =j =ṯ tm nnı͗=j n pꜣy=j jt mtw=ṯ
10	r-r rḏı͗.t jry.tw pꜣy njw j:ḏd jmı͗ jry=f
11	mtw =j =ṯ ḏı͗.t jry.tw nkt bnj.t jry=f

¹ The sitting man was written instead of the sitting woman.

vso. 1	wꜥ mḏq.t r-ḥꜣ.t=f ḏd m sẖꜣ.w Bw-th-Jmn
vso. 2	r-n.tj ḏı͗.t pꜣy=k jt jnı͗.tw n=j tꜣ šꜥ.t r-ḏd jmı͗ ṯꜣy=w
vso. 3	st n=k jw=f hꜣb n=j r-ḏd jr šꜥ.wt nb j:ḏı͗ pꜣy=k
vso. 4	sn jnı͗.tw n=j rn=k r=w ḫr=f jmı͗ jry.t w wꜥ jm ṯꜣy=st
vso. 5	n=f ḫr=f ḫr ḏı͗.t=j wꜣḥ.tw=f m-bꜣH H̱nmw ḏd=f r-ḏd jw=f
vso. 6	r wḏꜣ ḫr=f n šmꜥ.yt-n-Jmn-Rꜥ Twjꜣ sẖꜣ.w Ḥr-j ¹A stroke is visible at the end of this line which was written thicker and higher than the rest.
vso. 7	sn nb jnk wꜣḥ tp n nꜣy
vso. 8	n=w j:šsp Tꜣy-mḏꜣ .t
vso. 9	hꜣb n=j ḥr nꜣ ꜥḏd ²The last two words are covered by a smudge of ink.
vso. 10	m-bꜣḥ H̱nmw ḏd=f jw wḫꜣ
vso. 11	ḥs .w Pꜣ-n-tꜣ-ḥw.t-rs

¹ A stroke is visible at the end of this line which was written thicker and higher than the rest.
² The last two words are covered by a smudge of ink.

1	The singer of the expedition leader Panta[hut-resu]
2	[///] Amun to the scribe Butehamun [///]
3	the intimate Akh-menu, the craftsman [///] (and to) [the chantress of Amun-Re],
4	King of the gods Hem(et)-sheri(t) (and to) the chantress [\|of Amun Shedemduat\|]. [In life, prosperity, (and) health, (and) in the favor of]

5	Amun-Ra, King of the gods. Following: I pray every day to Amun-Ra-Horakhty, when [\|he rises\|]
6	and sets, to Khnum, Satet, Anoukis, and all gods of Elephantine to give
7	you life, prosperity, health, a long life, and a great and beautiful old age. Further the following:
8	And {I} &lt;you> shall look after the little boys. Do not be wrong
9	to them, and do not neglect my father, and you
10	shall cause this spear which I said that you shall cause it to be made, to be made,
11	and {I} &lt;you&gt; cause some date(-syrup) ¹According to: Vittmann, Hieratic Texts (1996), 69.to be made, so that it fills

¹ According to: Vittmann, Hieratic Texts (1996), 69.

vso. 1	one mḏq.t-vessel before he arrives ¹Lit.: "before him". A matter for the scribe Butehamun.
vso. 2	Following: Your father has caused the letter to be brought to me with the words: " Cause them to take
vso. 3	it to you!" And he wrote ²Lit. "send". to me with the words: "As to all letters, which your brother caused
vso. 4	to be brought to me, your name is on them.", so he said. Cause one from there to be made, so that it can be taken
vso. 5	to him.", so he said. And then &lt;I> caused him to be laid before Khnum. He said with the words: "He
vso. 6	will prosper.", so he said to the chantress of Amun-Ra Tuia and the scribe Hori.
vso. 7	Every brother of mine who turns the face to my [///]
vso. 8	to/due to them. Receive Tay-medja(t) [///]
vso. 9	send to me about the boys [///]
vso. 10	before Khnum. He said: "I shall seek [///]
vso. 11	The singer Pantahut-resu [///]

¹ Lit.: "before him".
² Lit. "send".

Places (read out from edition)

ꜣbw (places.xml#s3)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
11360	man	Akh-menu	ꜣḫ-mn.w	(none)

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ramesses XI					mentioned names and the compare with other letters of these individuals;

Literature

Černý, Jaroslav, Late Ramesside Letters (1939). (XII, 51-52a, no. 31)
Hafemann, Ingelore, pBN 196.III, Brief des Pa-en-ta-hut-res an Bu-teh-Imen (2017). ()
Janssen, Jac J., Late Ramesside Letters and Communications (1991). (pls. 72-73)
Spiegelberg, M. W., Correspondances du temps des rois-prêtres: publiées avec autres fragments épistolaires de la Bibliothèque Nationale (1895). (52-53, pls. V-VI)
Vittmann, Günter, Hieratic Texts (1996). (68-70)
Wente, Edward Frank, Late Ramesside Letters (1967). (67-68, no. 31)
Wente, Edward Frank, Letters from Ancient Egypt (1990). (199, no. 321)

DatasetID	310585
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	-
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 310585 (= Pap. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale 196, III), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.