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Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Cb

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Cb
Publication Status	unpublished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. All margins are damaged.

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)	The papyrus contains a part of all columns of the letter. The beginning is found on the recto of the smaller fragment. The last column on the verso of the larger fragment has to be the end of the text because the other fragment is not inscribed at all on this side. The beginning of all columns is lost. Since the end of some columns is preserved, the text loss at the end of the other columns is minor.
Script, Primary	Old Hieratic
Language, Primary	Old Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout	The text is composed in vertical lines (columns). There is a margin below some columns (column 4 and 5 on the recto; column 1, 3, and 7 on the verso) so that the end of these columns is preserved. Thus te length of the columns varies. The space between the columns and the width of the quadrats are irregular. At the end of column three on the recto the scribe wrote a title and a personal name next to each other, rather than consecutively in a vertical line of text. In addition, a particle was written next to a personal name in the space between the columns five and six on the verso, because the text had reached the lower end of the papyrus. The largest space between two columns is between the columns four and five on the recto.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Columns	1+6	8+0

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. The sender lightly touches a matter of the secretary which he had to inspect.
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	ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb n

II	ḥm jr.j-mḏꜣ.t
III	sꜣ=k-jm smr-wꜥ.tj Ḥqꜣ-jb
IV	r rḏı͗.t rḫ wn.t sp.n=j n=f
V	rḏı͗ m m .w=f
VI	Dwdwj jw ḏd.n=f n sꜣ=k-jm
VII	wḏ jr.j-mḏꜣ.t n sẖꜣ.w ꜥnw

b

V

vso. I	wt jw rḏı͗.t
vso. II	jm n.tt ḥnꜥ ꜥꜣm n jr.j-mḏꜣ.t
vso. III	f r=s hr? jw ḥm
vso. IV	ḏd n jr.j-mḏꜣ.t wn.n=j js
vso. V	jw jm.j-rꜣ-pr Mḫw sꜣ smr-wꜥ.tj Sꜣb.n-j rꜣ-pw
vso. VI	Šmꜣ.t nt jm
vso. VII	¹Ink traces and the sitting man are visible. n jr.j-mḏꜣ.t jw pn
vso. VIII	n.t m ẖn

¹ Ink traces and the sitting man are visible.

a

R

I	[///] life, prosperity, (and) health for? [///]

II	[///] indeed the secretary [///]
III	[///] your-son-there ¹I. e. "I". the sole companion Heqaib [///]
IV	[///] to let know that <I> have inspected on behalf of him
V	[///] give in his [///]
VI	[///] Dudui. He said to your-son-there ²I. e. "to me".
VII	[///] the secretary commanded the scribe Anu

¹ I. e. "I".
² I. e. "to me".

b

V

vso. I	[///] ? give
vso. II	there what is with the Asiatic of the secretary
vso. III	[///] therefore ? Indeed
vso. IV	[///] the secretary said: "I am [///]
vso. V	[///] the steward Mekhu's son the sole companion Saben<-i> or
vso. VI	[///] Shemat [///] there [///]
vso. VII	[///] of the secretary. [///] this [///]
vso. VIII	[///]

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
11070	man	Anu	ꜥnw	(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

Hafemann, Ingelore, pStraßburg Cb, Brieffragment (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. VI-VIb)
Möller, Georg, Hieratische Paläographie I. Bis zum Beginn der achtzehnten Dynastie (1927). (10-11)

DatasetID	311062
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 311062 (= Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Cb), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.