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Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Cd

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Cd
Publication Status unpublished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 The papyrus is preserved in two narrow fragments without direct join. All margins are 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 partial text of five columns on the recto und six columns on the verso is preserved. The first column on the recto of Frg. b contains traces of a cartouche with the throne name of Pharaoh Pepi II., which belongs to the date.
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+6+y x+5+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. It is probably a complaint.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
a
R
x+I
x+I -kꜣ-
x+II n jr.j-mḏꜣ.t
x+II bꜣk-jm
x+III s m.n bꜣk-jm
x+III jwı͗.t
x+IV 1The sitting man and the plural strokes are visible. n.w

1 The sitting man and the plural strokes are visible.
x+IV r bꜣk-jm
x+V Ḥfꜣ.j
x+V ꜣr
a
V
vso. x+I r Ḥfꜣ.j
vso .x+I ḥnꜥ
vso. x+II ḫrw=f jy
vso. x+II pn
vso. x+III bꜣk-jm r
vso. x+III rḏı͗ r
vso. x+IV r
vso. x+IV jm
vso. x+V n bꜣk-jm
vso. x+V ḏꜣ
vso. x+VI
vso. x+VI d

a
R
x+I[///]
x+I[///] [///]-ka-[///] [///]
x+II[///] for the secretary [///]
x+II[///] the servant[-there] 1I. e. "I". [///]

1 I. e. "I".
x+III[///] the serv[ant][-there] 1I. e. "I". slaid [///]

1 I. e. "I".
x+III[///] come [///]
x+IV[///] of [///]
x+IV[///] to [the serv[ant][-there] 1I. e. "to me".

1 I. e. "to me".
x+V[///] Hefai(?) [///]
x+V[///]
a
V
vso. x+I[///] to Hefai(?) [///]
vso. x+I[///] together with [///]
vso. x+IIhis voice 1This noun has the meaning "complaint" in Pap. Straßburg A.; come [///]

1 This noun has the meaning "complaint" in Pap. Straßburg A.
vso. x+II[///] this [///]
vso. x+III[///] [the servant-]there 1I. e. "to me". to [///]

1 I. e. "to me".
vso. x+IIIgive to [///]
vso. x+IV[///]
vso. x+IV[///] there [///]
vso. x+V[///] for the ser[vant][-there] 1I. e. "for me". [///]

1 I. e. "for me".
vso. x+V[///]
vso. x+VI[///]
vso. x+VI[///]
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
11275 man Hefai Ḥfꜣ.j (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
08th dynasty paleography; the mentioned name of the Pharaoh Sekhemkare;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 311090
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 311090 (= Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Cd), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.