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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 |
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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) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 There are ink traces which Möller - Gardiner, Schriftstücke der VI. Dynastie (1911), pl. IVb adds to Gardiner A1. 1 According to: Hafemann, pStraßburg A (January 2017): Gardiner D35.
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1 I. e.: "I".
1 I. e.: "I".
1 I. e. "to me".
1 I. e. "to me".
1 I. e. "my house".
1 I. e. "my loan" |
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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. |