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Pap. Cairo EM 308141

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Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Pap. Cairo EM 308141
Publication Number	TAD A.3.5
Current Location	museum collection other than Berlin
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director) Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Range of Preservation	incomplete

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)	There is one small fragment with the remains of two lines from the upper right corner of the recto, plus a larger fragment with the majority of the left half of the papyrus recto. The larger fragment is missing approximately the left half of the first line, as well as the bottom half of the first three letters of the last line. There is also a gap in the shape of an "E" that bridges lines 1-4 on the recto and lines 2-4 on the verso.
Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	4
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	Letter
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	Letter re: lack of correspondence, household
Comments on Text	most personal names are reconstructed by Porten in this letter's translation
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Comment on Gender	"To my brother Mah[seiah, your brother Mauziah]"

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				-424 BCE -400 BCE	;

Literature

Porten, Bezalel & Yardeni, Ada, Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt, 1: Letters. Appendix: Aramaic Letters from the Bible. (A3.5)

DatasetID	311073
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Lisa Cleath
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 311073 (= Pap. Cairo EM 308141), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Lisa Cleath.