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Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Cc

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Cc
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty:
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery purchase
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) (unknown)
Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Luxor
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Grossherzog Friedrich August (II.) von Oldenburg
Certainty:

Object

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation one small fragment is preserved whose margins are all damaged

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) Only short portions of four columns are preserved on each side.
Script, Primary Old Hieratic
Language, Primary Old Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout The text is composed in vertical lines (columns). The spaces between the columns and the widths of the quadrats are irregular.
  recto verso
Quantity of Columns x+4+y x+4+y

 

Text Content

Modern Title Letter
Ancient Archives private archive | family archive of nomarchs
Text Types
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content The content of this letter is incomprehensible due to its fragmentary state.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
x+I 1The sitting man is visible. pn jr ḥm
x+II m ḥ
x+III m nbw
x+IV =sn 2There are only ink traces.

1 The sitting man is visible.
2 There are only ink traces.
V
vso. x+I 1There are only ink traces.
vso. x+II ḥm jnı͗.n sẖꜣw
vso. x+III m 2There are only ink traces.
vso. x+IV ? Ḥpj r sn

1 There are only ink traces.
2 There are only ink traces.
R
x+I[///] this. Indeed, as to [///]
x+II[///] in [///]
x+III[///] of gold [///]
x+IV[///] they [///]
V
vso. x+I[///]
vso. x+II[///] Indeed, the scribe brought [///]
vso. x+III[///]
vso. x+IV[///] Hepi [///]

     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
11265 man Hepi Hpj (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
06th dynasty -2347 BCE -2170 BCE paleography; the mention of Old Kingdom royal names (Merenre, Pepi II.) on other fragments from this archive; Sneferu (4th dynasty) and Sekhemkare (8th dynasty) are also mentioned;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 311089
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 311089 (= Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Cc), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.