Pap. London, BM EA 10591
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
London, British Museum |
| Inventory Number |
Pap. London, BM EA 10591 |
| Current Location |
magazine |
| Publication Permission Status |
permission for publication upon enquiry only |
| Publication Status |
published |
Origin / Provenance
| Ancient Provenance Site |
Assiut (Sꜣ.wtj) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high |
| Ancient Provenance District |
Upper Egypt () [Trismegistos] |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt |
Upper Egypt () [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Acquisition for the Intitution |
(unknown) |
| Date of Acquisition for the Intitution |
between 1923 and 1923 |
Object
| Object Type |
papyrus |
| Dating of Object |
171BC-170BC |
| Dating |
between -171 and -170 |
| Range of Preservation |
complete |
| State of Preservation |
Complete. |
| Comments on Object |
British Museum: "Papyrus (mounted in 6 frames) written with black ink with demotic legal text on recto (10 cols., each of 24-26 ll. except the last of 19 ll.) and verso (7 cols. of varying size).
Thompson's MS Catalogue (referring to the whole papyrus): "recto: the proceedings of a native court of justice consisting of three priests with a Greek assessor in a civil suit arising out of the document no. 10575 supra. verso: copies of documents relating to the text of the recto. Date year 11 Pachons 21 of Ptolemy Philometor = BC. 170 June 23".
Here shown are cols. 1-3 (pls. 1-3 of Thompson's edition), containing the records of the trial.
Nos. 10575-10601 from the Siut Archive."
Measures: frame 1-2: 380 x 610 each, 3-5: 382 x 690 each, 6: 242 x 382 mm.
Other dating: 181BC (frame 3, col. 5vo-7vo) |
Text Basic Information
| Localization of Text on Object |
recto |
| Inks and Pigments |
carbon ink monochrome black |
| Range of Preservation (Text) |
complete |
| State of Preservation (Text) |
Complete. |
| Script, Primary |
Middle Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic Demotic |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Medium line pitch.
The text was placed centetd onto ths sheet, with small margins. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
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0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
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0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
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0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
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0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
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0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
Enteuxis of the priests of Isis from Aswan to Numenios |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | petition to the king (enteuxis, mkmk)
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| Summary of Content |
Petition (exteuxis) of the priests of Isis of Aswan intended to the strategos and archisomatophylax Numenios regarding the disposal of a vineyard. This petition was forwarded to Tutu, who prepared a review for the court of Ptolemais in Upper Egypt. The papyrus given here is only the notebook of Tutu for his review, while the original petition of the Aswan priests as well as the final letter from Tutu are not preserved. |
| Location of Composition |
Ptolemais Upper Egypt Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
| Religion |
Polytheism (Egyptian) |
People mentioned in Text
Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios VI Philometor |
11 |
Mesore |
18 |
-170 September 14 BCE |
internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
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Literature
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Baetens, Gert & Depauw, Mark, The legal advice of Totoes in the Siut archive (P. BM 10591, verso, col. I-III) (2015). (p. 198-215)
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Depauw, Mark, The Demotic Letter. A Study of Epistolographic Scribal Traditions against their Intra- and Intercultural Background (2006). (354 with proposed new readings)
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Felber, Heinz, Demotische Ackerpachtverträge (1997). (p. 83)
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Pestman, Pieter Willem, Marriage and matrimonial property in ancient Egypt : a contribution to establishing the legal position of the woman (1961). (p.43, no.1, diagr. C, no.8 (see p.187 for genealogy))
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Quack, Joachim Friedrich, Das Diktum des Tutu über die Engabe an Numenios (2011). (268-275)
| DatasetID |
311022 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
TM 43343, 53821-53824 |
| Author |
Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography) |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 311022 (= Pap. London, BM EA 10591), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography). |
