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Inventory Number | Pap. Paris, AIBL 2437 |
Current Location | Paris, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres CIS |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication upon enquiry only |
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 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. 6 fragments (fragm. 3: 3x5 cm; fragm. 5: 5x5 cm) |
Comments on Object | Fragment 1and 5 as well as 2 and 6 are corresponding in height as they are apparently broken along a common folded edge. |
Localization of Text on Object | recto/verso | |
State of Preservation (Text) | fragments of one letter. recto: written in columns, a blank space of papyrus of the original left side of the papyrus sheet is preserved on fragments 3, 4, 5 and 6. verso: 2 columns of text and 2 lines of text are preserved containing the name of the sender. | |
Script, Primary | Hieratic | |
Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
Comments on Handwriting | well-trained and quick script with ligatures | |
Comments on Text Layout | Columns of text on the recto, just an address on the verso. No rubra. |
Modern Title | Letter of the woman Wadjet |
Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown) |
Summary of Content | Letter of a woman named Wadjet, probably to the same man as the letter P.Paris AIBL 2433. 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) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
12th dynasty | 12/13th dynasty (MK), palaeographical dating; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 318655 |
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 318655 (= Pap. Paris, AIBL 2437), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper, Daniela C. Härtel. |