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| Collection | Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
| Inventory Number | Pap. Cairo EM 308142 |
| Publication Number | TAD A.3.6 |
| Current Location | museum collection other than Berlin |
| Publication Status | published |
| 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 Type | papyrus |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | 3 fragments: 2 large fragments, one of which is the right edge of the recto and one of which is a large part of the left half but does not extend to the edge of the recto. The one small fragment floats between the two larger fragments, composing part of the first line close to the fragment of the left half of the recto. |
| Localization of Text on Object | recto/verso | |
| Text-Localization, Addendum | 3 fragments, see comments in State of Preservation (Text) | |
| Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | 3 fragments: 2 large fragments, one of which is the right edge of the recto and one of which is a large part of the left half but does not extend to the edge of the recto. The one small fragment floats between the two larger fragments, composing part of the first line close to the fragment of the left half of the recto. All three fragments bear writing on the verso, which is the single line of address. A number of letters are partially effaced on both sides. | |
| Script, Primary | Aramaic, Imperial | |
| Language, Primary | Aramaic, Imperial | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 4 | 1 |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | 1 |
| Height of Line / Letter | ||
| Modern Title | Letter |
| Ancient Author of Text | Hoshaiah bar Nathan |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Letter re: special efforts, action with Seha |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Child |
| Comment on Gender | "look after the children" |
| Religion | unknown |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| -424 BCE -400 BCE | ; |
| DatasetID | 311074 |
| 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 311074 (= Pap. Cairo EM 308142), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Lisa Cleath. |
