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Persons & Deities

Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Bb

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Bb
Current Location	Strasbourg, Universitiy Library
Publication Status	unpublished

Origin / Provenance

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

Object Type	papyrus
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	One small fragment whose margins are damaged.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Only short portions of three columns are preserved. The beginning of all columns and the end of x+1 and x+2 are lost. The large uninscribed space below x+3 shows that this is the end of the letter. In the center of x+1 is a damaged section with text loss.
Script, Primary	Old Hieratic
Language, Primary	Old Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout	The text is composed in vertical lines (columns).
	recto	verso
Quantity of Columns	x+3

Text Content

Modern Title	Letter
Ancient Archives	private archive \| family archive of nomarchs
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	The content of this letter is incomprehensible due to its fragmentary state. A man is mentioned who has given something.
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

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x+I	sẖꜣ.w
x+II	gs r wḫꜣ nh.w n
x+III	ḏḏ ꜥnḥ.j pn

R

x+I	[///] scribe [///]
x+II	[///] the side to get some [///]
x+III	[///] what this Anchi has given.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
10975	man	Anchi	ꜥnḫ.j	Egyptian

Dates

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;

Literature

Hafemann, Ingelore, pStraßburg Bb, Briefffragment (2017). ()
Möller, Georg & Gardiner, Alan H., Hieratische Papyrus aus den Königlichen Museen zu Berlin: Schriftstücke der VI. Dynastie aus Elephantine: Zaubersprüche für Mutter und Kind (1911). (pls. VIII-VIIIb)
Möller, Georg, Hieratische Paläographie I. Bis zum Beginn der achtzehnten Dynastie (1927). (10-11)

DatasetID	311058
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 311058 (= Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Bb), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.