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Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Be&f

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Be&f
Publication Status unpublished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. There are few holes with little text loss. All 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) Recto: The content suggests that the first damaged column of the large fragment is the beginning of the letter. In regards to the content, the columns three and four are preserved entirely; only the first and last signs are damaged, but reconstructable. Thus the text loss at the beginning and at the end of the first two columns is minor. The end of the text is preserved. No more than one column is lost between these two fragments, because there is a standard dimension for papyrus of the Old Kingdom. Verso: The signs are smudged. (According to Möller, Schriftstücke der VI. Dynastie (1911), IV)
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 6 the scribe did not write two product names consecutively in the vertical line of text but rather next to one another horizontally. On the smaller fragment, there is an uninscribed margin below the first column so that the end of this column is preserved. The second column is longer und there is no margin. The scribe probably did not want to begin a new column and wrote the last signs on the margin. Thus this column constitutes the end of the text.
  recto verso
Quantity of Columns 4+x+2

 

Text Content

Modern Title Letter
Ancient Archives private archive | family archive of nomarchs
Text Types
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content The sender mentions that someone was sent to get hide and ochre for the subordinates.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
a
R
I bꜣk-jm n smr-wꜥ.tj s sꜣ smr-wꜥ.tj w
II bꜣk-jm jw gr hꜣb.n ḥꜣ.tj-ꜥ ḫtm.tj-bjtj smr-wꜥ.tj
IIIḥꜣ.tj-ꜥ jm.j-rꜣ šmꜥ.w Šmꜣ r wḫꜣ ṯr.w n mr. wt n mj qd=s sp
IVjw=j gr rḏı͗.n=j sw ḥr ẖ.t n ḥꜣ.tj-ꜥ pn r dbḥ ṯr.w sp ḏı͗
V
b
VI n wḫꜣ mskꜣ ḥnꜥ ṯr.w
VIIs rḏı͗.n bꜣk-jm mskꜣ
V
1According to: Möller, Schriftstücke der IV. Dynastie (1911), IV: Only smudged ink traces - probably traces of numbers - are visible.

1 According to: Möller, Schriftstücke der IV. Dynastie (1911), IV: Only smudged ink traces - probably traces of numbers - are visible.
a
R
I[///] the servant-there 1I. e. "I". to the sole companion [///], son of the sole companion Khu [///] [///]
II[///] the servant-there 2I. e. "I".. The mayor, sealer of the King of Lower Egypt, and sole companion [///] also sent [///]
IIIthe mayor and overseer of Upper Egypt Shema to get the ṯrw-ochre for the subordinates without 3The translation is unclear. [///]
IV<I> let him prostrate before this mayor to ask for the ṯrw-ochre [///] time. [///] give [///]
V[///]

1 I. e. "I".
2 I. e. "I".
3 The translation is unclear.
VI[///] get hide and ṯrw-ochre
VII[///] the servant-there 1I. e. "I". gave the hide.

1 I. e. "I".
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
11050 (uncertain) Shema Šmꜣ (none)

 

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 311060
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 311060 (= Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Be&f), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.