Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie A

Inventory Number	Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie A
Publication Status	published

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty:
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	purchase Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	(unknown) Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Luxor
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Grossherzog Friedrich August (II.) von Oldenburg Certainty:

Object Type	papyrus
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The papyrus is preserved in two fragments without direct join, but their positioning relative to each other is clear. The right upper part of the papyrus is lost. The largest fragment has some holes in the center. All margins are damaged.

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	The large margin next to the first line and the space below the last line show that the whole width of the text is preserved. The text consists of six columns, which are each damaged to a different extent. The beginning of the first three columns is lost. The text loss due to the gab between the two fragments and due to the papyrus holes is not large and the signs are reconstructable.
Script, Primary	Old Hieratic
Language, Primary	Old Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout	The text is composed in vertical lines (columns). The space between the columns and the width of the quadrats are irregular. In column 5, the scribe did not write two personal names consecutively in the vertical line of text, but rather next to one another horizontally.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Columns	6

Modern Title	Letter
Ancient Archives	private archive \| family archive of nomarchs
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	The sender hints at a loan that was not repaid to him. He mentions that a woman has to work off a debt of her husband in his house . A secretary plays a role in this matter.
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	A woman has to work in a house of a man in punishment of a committed crime.
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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I	jw ḫr.t=k mj ꜥnḫ sp ḥḥ.w ḥfn.w ḏbꜥ.w ḫꜣ.w šn.wt mḏ.w wꜥ.tjw
II	wn=f r bw n.tj sꜣ=k-jm ḥr sḏm n md
III	jw sꜣ=k-jm r jrı͗.t wḏ.t.n nb.t

IV	¹There are ink traces which Möller - Gardiner, Schriftstücke der VI. Dynastie (1911), pl. IVb adds to Gardiner A1. jr.j-mḏꜣ.t n sꜣ=k-jm

¹ There are ink traces which Möller - Gardiner, Schriftstücke der VI. Dynastie (1911), pl. IVb adds to Gardiner A1.

IV	jr-gr.t s.t hꜣb.t.n jr.j-mḏꜣ.t

V	ḥr=s n sꜣ=k-jm n ¹According to: Hafemann, pStraßburg A (January 2017): Gardiner D35.

¹ According to: Hafemann, pStraßburg A (January 2017): Gardiner D35.

V	ḫrw jn js smr-wꜥ.tj jm.j-rꜣ pr Jqw Jnı͗- j t=f smn s j

VI	m sꜣ=k jm ḥr

VI	ṯꜣb.t n.t sꜣ=k-jm

I	[\|May your state be like (that of) the living\|] one million, hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands, thousands, hundreds , tens (and) one of times [///]

II	[///] he [///]/ for him to the place where your-son-[there] ¹I. e.: "I". is, when listening [///]

¹ I. e.: "I".

III	[///] Your-son-there ¹I. e.: "I". will do everything that

¹ I. e.: "I".

IV	[///] the secretary has commanded your-son-[there] ¹I. e. "to me"..

¹ I. e. "to me".

IV	Now as to the women because of which the secretary has sent

V	to your-son-there ¹I. e. "to me". because

¹ I. e. "to me".

V	of the complaint: The sole companion and overseer of the house Iqu's (son) Inyotef was it, who appointed her

VI	in (the house of) your-son-there ¹I. e. "my house". because of

¹ I. e. "my house".

VI	the loan of your-son-there ¹I. e. "my loan".

¹ I. e. "my loan"

Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
10970	man	Iqu's son Inyotef	Jqw Jnı-jt=f	(none)

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
06th dynasty				-2347 BCE -2170 BCE	paleography; the mention of Old Kingdom royal names (Merenre, Pepi II.) on other fragments from this archive; Sneferu (4th dynasty) and Sekhemkare (8th dynasty) are also mentioned;

DatasetID	311057
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 311057 (= Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie A), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.