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unpublished |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.
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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
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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 |
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Summary of Content |
The content of this letter is incomprehensible due to its fragmentary state. It is probably a complaint.
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Location of Composition |
unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
Gender |
Man |
Religion |
Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Text
Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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x+IV | |
The sitting man and the plural strokes are visible. n.w
1 The sitting man and the plural strokes are visible.
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x+I | | [///] [///]-ka-[///] [///]
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x+II | | [///] for the secretary [///]
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x+II | | [///] the servant[-there] I. e. "I". [///]
1 I. e. "I".
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x+III | | [///] the serv[ant][-there] I. e. "I". slaid [///]
1 I. e. "I".
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x+IV | | [///] to [the serv[ant][-there] I. e. "to me".
1 I. e. "to me".
a
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vso. x+I | | [///] to Hefai(?) [///]
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vso. x+I | | [///] together with [///]
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vso. x+II | | his voice This noun has the meaning "complaint" in Pap. Straßburg A.; come [///]
1 This noun has the meaning "complaint" in Pap. Straßburg A.
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vso. x+II | | [///] this [///]
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vso. x+III | | [///] [the servant-]there I. e. "to me". to [///]
1 I. e. "to me".
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vso. x+IV | | [///] there [///]
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vso. x+V | | [///] for the ser[vant][-there] I. e. "for me". [///]
1 I. e. "for me".
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Places (read out from edition) |
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People mentioned in Text
ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
11275 |
man |
Hefai |
Ḥfꜣ.j |
(none) |
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Dates
RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
08th dynasty |
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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. |