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Pap. Cairo EM 308140

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Pap. Cairo EM 308140
Publication Number	TAD A.3.7
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
State of Preservation	2 fragments; together compose most of the width from the right end to the left end of the sheet, with a couple of centimeters gap in the middle of the fragments.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto/verso
Text-Localization, Addendum	verso is address only
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	some small gaps along the folds create partial letters, and some of the address on the verso of fragment a is effaced. Porten reconstructs some of the text on both sides of the gap.
Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4	1
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	Letter
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	fragmentary letter re: gold
Comments on Text	May be composed by the same Hosea who also composed 308144
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Woman Man
Comment on Gender	"To my lady Shalwah, your servant Hosea...greetings to my lady Abihi"

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. (A3.7)

DatasetID	311075
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 311075 (= Pap. Cairo EM 308140), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Lisa Cleath.