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Pap. Cairo EM 308144

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Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Pap. Cairo EM 308144
Publication Number	TAD A.3.8
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	one large fragment with small gaps along folds, and one smaller fragment spaced approximately one centimeter to the left of the large fragment

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)	Text on large fragment is composed of 11 lines, the last 8 of which continue after a gap of approximately 1 centimeter onto the smaller fragment. A number of the letters are partially effaced or lost due to small gaps along folds. Large fragment appears to extend to the far right edge of the sheet (minus the upper right corner with the beginning of the first three lines). The top of the large fragment verso contains the last three lines of the letter, which each continue onto the smaller fragment with illegible effaced text, and the bottom of the large fragment verso contains the address line with some damage/loss.
Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	11	4
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	Letter
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	Letter re: 10 karsh, borrowing money and selling houses, bringing objects to Memphis
Comments on Text	May be composed by the same Hosea who also composed 308140
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language

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. (A3.8)

DatasetID	311076
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 311076 (= Pap. Cairo EM 308144), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Lisa Cleath.