Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Be&f

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Inventory Number	Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Be&f
Publication Status	unpublished

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. There are few holes with little text loss. 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)	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

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)

Transcription

Translation

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I	bꜣk-jm n smr-wꜥ.tj s sꜣ smr-wꜥ.tj ḫw
II	ꜥ bꜣk-jm jw gr hꜣb.n ḥꜣ.tj-ꜥ ḫtm.tj-bjtj smr-wꜥ.tj
III	ḥꜣ.tj-ꜥ jm.j-rꜣ šmꜥ.w Šmꜣ r wḫꜣ ṯr.w n mr. wt n mj qd=s sp
IV	jw=j gr rḏı͗.n=j sw ḥr ẖ.t n ḥꜣ.tj-ꜥ pn r dbḥ ṯr.w sp ḏı͗
V

VI	ꜣ n wḫꜣ mskꜣ ḥnꜥ ṯr.w
VII	s 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.

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 [///]
III	the mayor and overseer of Upper Egypt Shema to get the ṯrw-ochre for the subordinates without ³The translation is unclear. [///]
IV	&lt;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)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
11050	(uncertain)	Shema	Šmꜣ	(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	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.