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Pap. Paris, AIBL 2433

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. Paris, AIBL 2433
Current Location Paris, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres CIS
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Several joining fragments. The dimensions of the letter are preserved. Holes and brakes are due to original foulding.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
State of Preservation (Text) About 2/3 of the text on the recto is preserved, half of the text on the verso. On the recto, five columns of text are preserved which is the original total amount of text columns.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout Columns of text on the recto, just an address on the verso. No rubra.

 

Text Content

Modern Title Letter of the woman Wadjet to (her husband?) Hor-[///]
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | private
Summary of Content Letter of a woman named Wadjet to a man namend Hor-[///], which might be her husband. In the letter „your children“ are mentioned, which might be the children of them both. According to the finding place of the letter in Elephantine, this might be the place, where the addressed man stays at the moment of sending the letter – but it could also be that Elephantine is the place where the woman stays, in case the letters had never recieved the addresse.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Woman Man
Comment on Gender A woman addresses a man (probably her husband) in this letter.
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
1ḏḏ nb.t-pr Wꜣḏ.t ꜥḥꜣ tw sp-snw m ꜥnḫ-wḏꜣ-snb=k m ḥs.t n.t sṯj Wꜣḏ.t (nb.t) ꜣbw
2nḏm wj(?) .?. nb .?.w [...] .?. [...] ḥnꜥ=f ḫsf(?) .?.w ḏd ẖrdw.w=k
3rḏ=k gr.t ḥꜣtj=j jr pw(?) [...] gr.t šd(?)=k wj [...]=k jn .?. ꜥnḥw(?) sn(?) sn.t(?)
4rḏ=k wj r-ḫnt sn[...] [...] jn.n=f / jn n=f m njwt [...] ḥr(?) [...] jw=f(?) jn(t?) [...]
5jḫ spr=k ḥr pꜣ ḥwj(?) [...].wt=j nfr sḏm=k
V
1[///]-Ḥr ꜥnḫ-wḏꜣ-snb
R
1Given by the mistress of the house, Wadjet. Beware, beware! As you may live, be sound and healthy by the grace of the fiery rays of Wadjet, mistress of Elephantine!
2How(?) pleasant [...] master of(?) [...(pl.)] [...] .?. [...] together with him. Repel(?) .?., say your children.
3But you cause that my heart is it what makes [...] but you may save /remove me, you [...] by / concerning .?. living(?) - brother(?), sister(?).
4You may cause that I am ahead at the top of [...] [...] He brought (?) / Bring for him(?) in the town [...] with(?) [...] Because: he brings/brought(?) [...]
5What is it you reach with him who beats(?) my [...]? Beautiful is it when you listen!
V
1Hor-[///], he may live, be well and healthy!
BER_2433_NEU_R_001
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BER_2432_R_001
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BER_2433_R_001
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BER_2434_V_001
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Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
12th dynasty MIddle Kingdom, 12th - 13th dynasty (paleographical dating);

 

Pictures

BER_2433_NEU_R_001
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BER_2432_R_001
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BER_2433_R_001
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BER_2434_V_001
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BER_2435_V_001
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BER_2598_AIBL_R_001
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BER_2599_AIBL2_R_001
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BER_2600_AIBL3_R_001
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BER_2601_AIBL4_V_001
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BER_2602_AIBL5_V_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318270
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 318270 (= Pap. Paris, AIBL 2433), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper, Daniela C. Härtel.