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Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Ba

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Ba
Publication Status	unpublished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	The papyrus is preserved in two fragments without direct join,but their positioning relative to each other is clear. On the recto, the larger fragment shows a part of the left margin and the smaller fragment contains a part of the right margin. Papyrus is lost from all other margins.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto/verso
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Parts of the first and last column are preserved. The beginning and the end of all lines are lost. Because there is a standard dimension for papyrus of the Old Kingdom, no more than one column is lost between these two fragments.
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.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Columns	1+y+5	5+y+1

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. Nubians who travel to Egypt, the obtaining of a bull for thes ender, and the coming of the king’s son are mentioned. In addition the sender complains that a copy of a specific letter was not sent to him.
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

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a

R

I	nḥs.jw m ḫdı͗
II

III	wḫꜣ.tw n=j kꜣ m š
IV	wꜣ jb pw mj-qd nn
V	ws.kw j ꜥnḫ.k wj n rḏı͗ rḫ
VI	š stpw ḥm nn jrı͗.w
VII	sꜣ-nswt jy m-ḫnt s

b

V

vso. I	w n ḫft dmd
vso. II	nḥs.jw m ḫdı͗ r bw n.t sr.w
vso. III	nfr.n ḏḏ=k jnı͗.t w n=j mj.t j ꜥ n
vso. IV	jrı͗.t sẖꜣ=k jn jr ḏr n.tt mj qd
vso. V	jrı͗=tn jḥ

vso. VI
vso. VII	wṯs.t

a

R

I	[///] Nubians when travelling northwards [///]
II	[///]

III	[///] the bull is obtained for for <me> in [///]
IV	[///] conspiring of the heart is it in the manner of these [///]
V	[///] I [///] I live because of letting know [///]
VI	[///] ? Indeed these that make [///]
VII	[///] the king's son who comes forth [///].

b

V

vso. I	[///] according to the total [///]
vso. II	[///] the Nubians when travelling northwards to the place of officials [///]
vso. III	[///] you are not sending a copy of the letter of [///] to <me>.
vso. IV	[///] what your-scribe ¹I. e. "you". does ²The translation is entirely ambiguous.[///]
vso. V	[///] you do [///]

¹ I. e. "you".
² The translation is entirely ambiguous.

[///] you are not sending a copy of the letter of [///] to <me>.

vso. VI	[///]
vso. VII	[///] carry [///]

Places (read out from edition)

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

DatasetID	311059
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 311059 (= Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Ba), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.