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Persons & Deities

Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Fg

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Fg
Publication Status	unpublished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	Only one small fragment, whose margins are damaged, is preserved.

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)	Some signs are merely preserved.
Script, Primary	Old Hieratic
Language, Primary	Old Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout
	recto	verso
Quantity of Columns	2+y	x+2

Text Content

Modern Title	Letter
Ancient Archives	private archive \| family archive of nomarchs
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	The content of the letter is incomprehensible due to its fragmentary state. A section of the salutation-formula as well as titles are preserved.
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	a typical title of women is preserved
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

R

x+I	mj ꜥnḫ sp ḥḥ
x+II	Ḥr

V

vso.x+I

ẖkr.t-nswt Ḥtp-

vso. x+1

ḥꜣ.tj-ꜥ jm-j-rꜣ šmꜥw

R

x+I	[///] like that of the living one million &lt;times> [///]
x+II	[///] Horus [///]

V

vso. x+I	[///] ornament of the king Hetep-[///] [///]
vso. x+1	[///] the mayor and overseer of Upper Egypt [///]

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
11390	woman	Hetep-[///]	Ḥtp-[///]	(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

Möller, Georg & Gardiner, Alan H., Hieratische Papyrus aus den Königlichen Museen zu Berlin: Schriftstücke der VI. Dynastie aus Elephantine: Zaubersprüche für Mutter und Kind (1911). (pls. V-Vb)
Möller, Georg, Hieratische Paläographie I. Bis zum Beginn der achtzehnten Dynastie (1927). (10-11)

DatasetID	311096
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 311096 (= Pap. Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie Fg), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.