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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 35.1453a-b

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Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 35.1453a-b
Current Location New York, Brooklyn Museum
Comments on Inventory Gift of Theodora Wilbour
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site unknown () [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District unknown () [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery find or purchase
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Wilbour, Charles Edwin
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt unknown
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt unknown () [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution donation
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1935 and
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Wilbour, Charles Edwin
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Fragment A: "The text, written perpendicularly to the verticla fibres, is complete on all margins except the lower one." (Condon). Fragment A (other side): " This text, written parallel to the horizontal fibres, appears to be complete except for the top margin and the end of line three" (Condon). Fragment B: "It is [...] less well preserved, less legible, and rubbed thin" [in comparison to fragment A] (Condon). Fragment B (verso): "The left-hand and bottom margins are complete, but a substantial portion of the text is missing on the right and an unknown number of lines is missing at the top." (Condon). Fragment B (recto): "the text seems to be complete on all margins except the right-hand one, where a large part is lost." (Condon).
Mounting (unknown)

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink polychrome black and red
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting Two sheets of an accounting papyrus inscribed on both recto and verso. Sheet A has 26 lines of text on recto and 11 on verso. Text B has 11 lines of text and recto and 11 on verso. Fragment A: several words in red ink. Fragement B (recto): The use of red ink is inconsistent (Condon).
Comments on Text Layout "Both sides appear to contain traces of a previously-erased text whose lines were perpendicular to those of the present text." (Condon).

 

Text Content

Modern Title Accounting Papyrus and possibly a hymn to Aten(?)
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
  • religious-literary | polytheistic Egyptian | hymn
Summary of Content Account. Originally published as two separate papyri, the two sheets are probably different pages of the same account. The content deals with the distribution or sale of goods, namely, garments and honey by women. "Fragment A deals largely with the sixth Upper-Egyptian nome while B probably deals with nome V" (Condon). Fragment A, other side: "lists several women, their parents and their residence, followed by deliveries of specified quantities of a variety of objects." (Condon). "It is dabatable whether or not the text records the distribution by te temple (or state) of payments, in the form of rations, to temple (or harim) workers." (Condon). Fragment B: (side with vertical fibres): possibly a hymn to the Aten or a similar text? Fragment B (verso): The text "records the expediting [...] and arrival of certain quantities of various linen goods, deficts where applicable, and the names of two men and ther fathers." (Condon) Fragment B (recto): "This fragment is divided informally into columns, of which the first extant column contains the names of the mothers of women whose names (and whose fathers' names) are now lost at the beginning of the column. The names of their places of residence are preserved in the same column, after which are listed deficits and deliveries, chiefly of linen and honey." "whether the inidivdduals are the recipients or the donors (ddebtors?) of the deliveries and deficits is unclear." (Condon).
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Woman
Comment on Gender The content deals with the distribution or sale of goods, namely, garments and honey by women. "Coincidentally, no doubt, many of these names bear a close similarity or identity to a particular group of names of royal concubines of the Amarna period and from the Theban area" (Condon). "However, since nearl all of the personal names in the present texts are of such common occurence during the New Kingdom, including the Amarna period, the possibility of associating them with any persons already known from other sources is remote." (Condon).
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1 mnj.t 1 jr.n hwn 4 hꜣrw 1
2
3ꜣbd 4 šm.t rꜥ 26 ḥr mry.t Jꜣy-wꜣb.t jꜣrr.t ḫꜥ hwn 3 ḫm.t hwn 1 ẖꜣj hwn [?] ḫꜣrw hwn 2
4hrw pn ḥr mry.t Pꜣ-mr.t-n-Jwn.t ḫꜣrw hwn 1 jr.n 51 3 jr.n hwn 31 sšw 10 pꜥw 100 t 50 dnjt 1
5hrw pn ḥr mry.t Tꜣ-mnj.t-pꜣ-mr-Sbk-Rꜥ pꜥw 15 jꜣrr.t ḥqꜣ.t 2
6ꜣbd 4 šm.t rꜥ 27 ḥr mry.t Pr-bꜣkw pꜥw 10
7ꜣbd 4 šm.t rꜥ 28 ḥr mry.t Tꜣ-mnj.t-pꜣ-ḫr.t Pr-ḥw.t tꜣb.t 1 wꜥb 5 ḫꜣrw hwn jr.n hwn 44 ṯꜣb 1 jr.n hwn 15 nꜥt jr.n hwn 33
8pꜥw 95 jꜣrr.t ḥqꜣ.t 3 wꜣḏw-mr.w 5 ḥm.t hwn 3 ḫꜥy hwn 3 ẖꜣjt hwn 1
9ꜣbd 4 šm.t rꜥ 29 ḥr mry.t Ṯn.t-šnꜥ pꜥw 80 dꜣb 2 jꜣrr.t ḥqꜣ.t 2
10ꜣbd 4 šm.t rꜥ ꜥrqy ḥr mry.t Jwn.t bj.t hwn 5 1/4
11rꜥ1 ḥr mry.t Pꜣ-jdb-n-Jwn.t pꜥw 25 ẖꜣjt hwn 1 ḥꜥy hwn 1 ḥw(?) 6 ẖꜣj.t hwn 1 ḥm.t hwn 1
1mry.t Ḥꜥpy-ꜥꜣ
2Tꜣ-šmꜥy.t sꜣ.t Ḥwy mw.t=s Mw.t-nsw n šmꜥ.t jw jw sš-ry(?)n1 ḥḏ ḫtm 1 jnr ḫꜣ ḥr.t.t 20
3Rꜥ-tꜣ.wj sꜣ.t Nb-pꜣ-Jtn mw.t=s Mꜥjꜣ n " jw jw sš tpj pꜣw ḥḏ 5 km 1 dmḏ 6 ḏꜣj ṯnfy.t 1
4sꜣ.t=s Bꜣk.t-pꜣ-Jtn sꜣ.t Ḫꜣwty mw.t=s Rꜥ-tꜣ.wj jw jw ḥḏ hnw 4
5Jnny sꜣ.t Ḫꜣwt mw.t=s Ṯn.t-Jwn.t n " jw jw mss 1
6Sꜣḥ.tj sꜣ.t Mꜣꜣn mw.t=s Pꜣ-Jtn-m-wsḫ.t n " jw jw ḥḏ ḫtm 1 [jnr] ḫꜣ ḥr.t.t 10
7Wrnr sꜣ.t Pꜣḥwrd mw.t=s Twy n " bj.t jw sš-ry 1
8Jwy sꜣ.t Jnny mw.t=s Ṯnt-njw.t n " bj.t jw bj.t hnw 47
9mry.t Pꜣ-mr.t-n-Jwn.t
10Tꜣ-nfr.t sꜣ.t Dydy mw.t=s Bꜣk.t n pꜣ mr.t n Jwn.t bj.t jw bj.t hwn 50
11sꜣ.t=s Twy sꜣ.t Smn-tꜣ.wj mw.t=s Tꜣ-nfr.t n " bj.t jw bj.t hwn 37 ḥḏ ḫtm 2
12mry.t Pr-bꜣkw
13Twy sꜣ.t Sn mw.t=s Pꜣ-Jtn-m-wsḫ.t n " jw jw sš-ry 2 sꜣtw(?) 1 šsrw tpj pꜣtw km 10 ḥḏ 2
14mry.t Tꜣ-njw.t-pꜣ-ḫr.t
15Tꜣ-nfr.t sꜣ.t Mḥw mw.t=s Rwjꜣ n rsw.t msj=s m Tꜣ-njw.t-pꜣ-ḫr.t jw jw bj.t hwn 45
16Ṯn.t-Jwn.t sꜣ.t Mryw mw.t=s Tꜣ-ḥm.t n Jwn.t bj.t jw bj.t hwn 42 ḥḏ ḫtm 1
17ꜣbd 4 šm.t rꜥ 29 mry.t Ṯn.t-šnꜥ
18Nfr.t Ṯn.t-šnꜥ jw šsrw km tpj pꜣtw 3
19Kꜣjꜣ sꜣ.t Pꜣ-Jtn-nḫ.t jw šsrw km tpj pꜣtw 3
20mry.t Jwn.t
21Bwjꜣ sꜣ.t Mꜥy n Jwn.t jw bj.t hwn 5 1/4
22mry.t Pꜣ-jdb-n-Jwn.t
23.t-ꜥšꜣ.t sꜣ.t Jsnn mw.t=s Sꜣ.tj n " jw šsrw tpj pꜣtw km 10 ḥḏ 1
24Ṯn.t-Jwn.t sꜣ.t Rꜥ n " jw šsrw tpj pꜣtw ḥḏ 7 jr.n dbn 35 km 2
25 " jw šsrw tpj pꜣtw ḥḏ 6
26 bj.t hwn 40 nꜥ(ꜥ).t-ḏꜣy.t 1
1
2jfd mss 2 ḫwjPꜣ-wḫd sꜣ Kpny
3šsrw(?) 1 jw šsrw 1 (w)ḏꜣ.t sjꜣ.t(?) 20 Jny sꜣ Qdy sḏr 1 ḫwj pꜣ
4
5jfd ꜥꜣ 1 mss 1 jw mss 1
6mḥw 1 šmꜥ 1 m wḏ m ꜣbd 4 šmw rꜥ 8
7
8 ḥr mw
9 1 m wḏ m ꜣbd 4 šmw rꜥ 8
10 jw 2
11 1 šsrw 1 jw
V-1 n mḥ.t ḥms m Ṯn.t-nbwy.t šsrw jw šsrw wḏꜣ.t deben 20
V-2 mw.t=s Tꜣ-nfr.t n Ṯn.t-nbwy.t bj.t wḏꜣ.t bj.t hwn 14 n snf(?)/sf jw bj.t hwn 51(?) wḏꜣ hwn 5
V-3 Wr.t n Tꜣ-mꜣw Dmj.t-w.t(?) šsrw wḏꜣ šsrw dbn 6 n snf(?)/sf
V-4y n Ṯn.t-nbwy.t šsrw wḏꜣ m bꜣk=s n snf(?)/sf
V-5 j n " šsrw wḏꜣ šsrw dbn 18 n snf(?)/sf jw šsrw dbn 25
V-6 Mḥy n " šsrw wḏꜣ šsrw dbn 50 n snf(?)/sf jw šsrw dbn 50 km.t wḏꜣ m bꜣk=s dbn 100 jw šsrw dbn 26
V-7-nfr.t n " šsrw wḏꜣ šsrw dbn 33 n snf(?)/sf
V-8=s Ṯp n " šsrw wḏꜣ šsrw dbn 90 n snf(?)/sf
V-9[Ḫn]sw-m-p.t šsrw wḏꜣ m bꜣk=s n snf(?)/sf
V-10ty n " šsrw wḏꜣ (deleted: šsrw dbn 51) " n snf(?)/sf jw šsrw dbn 25
V-11 " šsrw wḏꜣ (deleted: šsrw dbn 54) n snf(?)/sf jw šsrw dbn 33
1 mni-jar(?) 1 amounting to hin 4, 1 haru.
2
3Month 4 of Inundation, day 26, at the dock of Iat-[wabet: grapes...] khay hin(?) 3, hemet hin(?) 1, khait [hin(?) X], myrrhe(?) hin(?) 2.
4This day at the dock of The-Canal-of-Iunet: Syrian(-jar) 1 amounting to hin 51, 3 (others) amounting to hin 31, seshu(?)-loaves 10, paw-loaves 100, ordinary loaves 50, 1 launderer's pole.
5This day at the dock of The-Mooringpost-of-the-Canal-of-Sobk-Ra: paw-loaves 15,grapes heqat 2.
6Month 4 of Inundation, day 27, at the dock of Per-Baku: paw-loaves, 10.
7Month 4 of Inundation, day 28, at the dock of The-Village-of-the-Necropolis-of-Per-hat: tabet(?), 1 ring of smaragdus(?), 5 pedestals, a Syrian(-jar) amounting to hin 44, 1 tjab-jar amounting to hin 15, 1 colored-jar amounting to hin 33,
8paw-loaves 95, grapes heqat 3, vegetable bundles 5, hemet hin(?) 3, khay hin(?) 3, khait hin(?) 1.
9Month 4 of Inundation, day 29, at the dock of Tent-shena: paw-loaves 80, figs 2 heqat, grapes heqat 2.
10Month 4 of Inundation, last day, at the dock of Iunet: honey, hin 5 1/4.
11(Month 1 of Winter) day 1, at the dock of The-Bank-of-Iunet: paw-loaves 25, khait [hin?] 1, khay [hin?] 1, hw(?) 6(?), khait hin(?) 1 (sic.), hemet hin(?) 1.
1Shore of Hapy-aa
2Ta-shemayit, daughter of Huy and whose mother is Mut-nesu, of the southern part of the island - delivery of 1 pigment-grinder (), 1 seal of silver, 20 copper lumps.
3Ra-tawy, daughter of Neb-pa-aten and whose mother is Maia, of the same part of the island - delivery of linen of the first-grade and finely-woven, 5 white, 1 black, total 6, 1 (?) assortment of clothing, 1 small bundle.
4Her daughter Bakt-pa-aten, daughter of Khawty and whose mother is Ra-tawy, (of the same part of?) the island - delivery of 4 hin-jars of silver.
5Ineni, daughter of Khawt and whose mother is Tent-Iunet, of the same part of the island - delivery of 1 tunic.
6Sahti, daughter of Maan and whose mother is Pa-aten-em-weskhet, of [the same part of] the island - [delivery] of 1 [seal] of silver, 10 copper lumps.
7Werel, daughter of Pahared and whose mother is Tuy, of the same place - honey - delivery of 1 pigment-grinder (?).
8Iuy, daughter of Ineny and whose mother is Tjent-niut, of the same place - honey - delivery of 47 hin of honey.
9Shore of The-Canal-of-Iunet:
10Ta-nofret, daughter of Dydy, and whose mother is Baket, of The-Canal-of-Iunet - honey - delivery of 50 hin of honey.
11Her daughter Tuy, daughter of Smen-tawy and whose mother is Ta-nofret, of the same place - honey - delivery of 37 hin of honey, 2 seals of silver.
12Shore of Per-baku:
13Tuy, daughter of Sen and whose mother is Pa-aten-em-weskhet, of the same part of the island - delivery of 2 pigment-grinders(?), 1 small satu-(garment?), linen of the first-grade and finely-woven, black 10, whte 2.
14Shore of The-Village-of-the-Necropolis:
15Ta-nofret, daughter of Mahu and whose mother is Ruia, of the South and currently residing in The-Village-of-the Necropolis (n) the island - delivery of 45 hin of honey.
16Tent-Junet, daughter of Mery and whose mother is Ta-hemet, of Iunet - honey - [delivery] of 42 hin of honey, 1 seal of silver.
17Month 4 of Inundation, day 29, shore of Tent-shena:
18[Nofret- ], of Tent-shena - delivery of 3 black [first-grade, fine] linen-cloths.
19Kaia, daughter of Pa-aten-nakht - delivery of 3 black first-grade, fine linen-cloths.
20Shore of Iunet:
21Buia, daughter of Maia, of Iunet - delivery of 5 1/4 hin of honey.
22Shore of The-Bank-of Iunet:
23[-t-Ashat, daughter of] Isenen and whose mother is Sati, of the same place - delivery of linen of the first-grade and finely-woven, black 10, [white 1].
24Tent-Iunet, daughter of Ra, of the same place - delivery of linen of the first-grade and finely woven, 7 white valued at 35 deben, 2 black.
25 of the same place - delivery of 6 first-grade, fine white linen-cloths.
26 [honey] hin 40, 1 robe of colored(-cloth).
1
2she]et[ (no.), tu]nics 2 set [aside? ] Pa-ukhed son of Kepny.
3linen(?)-]cloth 1 - delivery of 1 linen-cloth, deficit [pieces of cloth?] 20 - Iny son of the artist (of?) Qedy, 1 bed set aside, and 1 assortment of finely-woven (cloth) set aside(?).
4
5shee]t 1 large, 1 tunic - delivery of 1 tunic.
6] Lower-Egyptian linen-cloth 1, and 1 Upper-Egyptian linen-cloth as what was sent in month 4 of Summer, day 8.
7
8
9X-plus?] 1 as what was sent in month 4 of Summer, day 8.
10 - delivery [ X plus?] 2.
11 1, linen-cloth 1 - deli[very] of 1 assortment, defi[cit] [pieces of cloth?] 5.
V-1 of the South, (now) residing in Tent-Enboyet - linen - delivery linen, deficit 20 deben.
V-2 whose mother is Ta-nofret, of Te[nt]-Enboyet- honey - deficit of honey, 14 (?) hin of last year - delivery of honey, 51 (?) hin, deficit 5 hin.
V-3 Weret, of The New-land of [De]mi-ut(?) - linen - deficit of linen, deben 6 of last year.
V-4y, [of Te]nt-Enboyet - linen - deficit corresponding to (an amount equal to) her wages(?) of last year.
V-5i, of the same (place) - linen - deficit of linen, 18 deben, of last year - delivery of 25 deben of linen.
V-6Me]hy, of the same (place) - linen - deficit of linen, 50 deben, of last year - delivery of 50 deben of linen, completed-transaction - deficit corresponding to her wages(?), 100 deben - delivery of 26 deben of linen.
V-7 Nofret, of the same (place) - linen - deficit of linen, 33 deben, of last year.
V-8 whose [mother?] is Tchep-Iunw, of te same (place) - linen - deficit of linen, 90 deben, of last year.
V-9Khon]s-em-pet - linen - deficit corresponding to her wages(?) of last year.
V-10ty, of the same (place) - linen - deficit ("linen 51 deben" deleted by the scribe) preceeding-line(?) tonbe repeated (i.e. corresponding to her wages?) of last year - delivery of 25 deben of linen.
V-11 (illigible traces, partially deleted) of(?) the same (place) - linen - deficit ("linen 54 deben" deleted by the scribe), corresponding to her wages(?) of last year - delivery of 33 deben of linen.
     
Places (read out from edition)
  • Jꜣy-wꜣb.t (places.xml#190)
  • Pꜣ-mr.t-n-Jwn.t (places.xml#191)
  • Tꜣ-mnj.t-pꜣ-mr-Sbk-Rꜥ (places.xml#192)
  • Pr-bꜣkw (places.xml#193)
  • Tꜣ-mnj.t-pꜣ-ḫr.t Pr-ḥw.t (places.xml#194)
  • Ṯn.t-šnꜥ (places.xml#195)
  • Jwn.t (places.xml#196)
  • Pꜣ-jdb-n-Jwn.t (places.xml#197)
  • Ḥꜥpy-ꜥꜣ (places.xml#198)
  • Pꜣ-mr.t-n-Jwn.t (places.xml#191)
  • Pr-bꜣkw (places.xml#193)
  • Ṯn.t-šnꜥ (places.xml#195)
  • Jwn.t (places.xml#196)
  • Pꜣ-jdb-n-Jwn.t (places.xml#197)
  • Ṯn.t-nbwy.t (places.xml#199)
  • Ṯn.t-nbwy.t (places.xml#199)
  • Ṯn.t-nbwy.t (places.xml#199)
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    Dates

    RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
    New Kingdom -1539 BCE -1292 BCE late XVIII Dynasty-early XIX Dynasty, reign of Akhenaten or reign of Horemheb. "The fragment [A] can be dated somewhere around the late Amarna period by the abundance of names compounded with the element Aten and by the distinctive hieratic form of the alighting duck with a dot or dash added underneath." (Condon).;

     

    Literature

     

    DatasetID 318097
    last Change 29.07.2022
    Author Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel
    Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    (CC BY-NC-SA)
    Data set citation Data set 318097 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 35.1453a-b), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.