Pap. Cairo, Cairo University P. 1687
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Metadata
Collection
Inventory Number |
Pap. Cairo, Cairo University P. 1687 |
Publication Number |
TAD A.2.3 |
Current Location |
museum collection other than Berlin |
Publication Status |
published |
Origin / Provenance
Ancient Provenance Site |
Hermopolis Magna () [Trismegistos]
Certainty: |
Object
Object Type |
papyrus |
Range of Preservation |
complete |
Text Basic Information
Localization of Text on Object |
recto/verso |
Text-Localization, Addendum |
address at the bottom of the verso is rotated 180 degrees relative to the rest of the text on the verso |
Inks and Pigments |
carbon ink monochrome black |
Range of Preservation (Text) |
complete |
Script, Primary |
Aramaic, Imperial |
Language, Primary |
Aramaic, Imperial |
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recto |
verso |
Quantity of Lines |
7 |
7 |
Quantity of Columns |
1 |
1 |
Height of Line / Letter |
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Text Content
Modern Title |
Letter about Warfare |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content |
Letter re: Welfare of Harudj, a Guarantor, and Clothing.
Parcel of family letters discovered at Hermopolis |
Location of Composition |
Hermopolis Magna Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Comments on Text |
Of this parcel of seven family letters, six were addressed by three individuals to members of their family at Syene and Luxor. Four letters were sent to Syene, all of which send greetings to temples in Syene (the temples of Bethel and the Queen of Heaven, Banit, and Nabu). All six letters were written by the same scribe, probably from the same papyrus roll, one after another in the order arranged in TAD2.1-2.6. |
Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
Gender |
Man
Woman |
Comment on Gender |
letter addressed to a sister from a brother; guarantor may have a potential claim against the sister |
Religion |
Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Text
Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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vso1 | | ארה לא אחי הו חרוצ וכעת הלו יהב להנ פרס|
vso2 | | תנה ויתלקח קדמתהנ בסונ וכעת הנ את ערב עליכי|
vso3 | | אתיה לתפמת וכעת מדעמ אל תזבני בכסת ותשרי לה|
vso4 | | שלמ יקיה הוי שלחת לה וכעת הוי חזית על תשי ועל|
vso5 | | ברה ושלחי כל טעמ זי הוה בביתי לשלמכי שלחת ספר|
vso6 | | ה זנה|
vso7 | | אלאבי פסמי בר נבונתנ מנ מכבנתסוניבל
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1 | | Greetings to the Temple of Nabu. To my sister Reia from your brother Makkibanit.|
2 | | I have blessed you by Ptaḥ that he may show me your face in peace. Greetings to Banitsarel and Arag|
3 | | and Isireshut and Shurdur. Ḥarudj seeks after their welfare. And now, it is well |
4 | | for Ḥarudj here. Do not be concerned about him; as you could do for him, I am doing|
5 | | for him. Both Tapamet and Aḥatsin are supporting him. And now, verily, you have not sent a letter|
6 | | addressed in his name. And now, that you were full of anger against me, saying: "No one asks about Ḥarudj," now|
7 | | as much as I am doing for Ḥarudj thus may Banit do for me.
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vso1 | | Verily, is not Ḥarudj my brother?! And now behold, salary has been given to them|
vso2 | | here and it will be taken ahead of them at Syene. And now, if a guarantor have a claim against you,|
vso3 | | bring him to Tapamet. And now, do not buy anything as clothing that you might dispatch to her.|
vso4 | | Do send her greetings from Yekia. And now, do look after Tashi and after|
vso5 | | her son and send word about every matter which was in my house. I have sent|
vso6 | | this letter to inqire about your welfare.|
vso7 | | To my father Psami son of Nabunathan from Makkibanit. To be delivered to Syene.
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Places (read out from edition) סונ (places.xml#s8)סונ (places.xml#s8) |
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People mentioned in Text
ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
9820 |
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Aḥatsin |
אחתסנ |
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Dates
RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
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-524 BCE -475 BCE |
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Literature
DatasetID |
311067 |
last Change |
29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos |
89385 |
Author |
Lisa Cleath, Verena Lepper |
Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation |
Data set 311067 (= Pap. Cairo, Cairo University P. 1687), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Lisa Cleath, Verena Lepper. |