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Pap. Paris, AIBL 2437

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Metadata

Collection

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

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. 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.

Text Basic Information

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.

 

Text Content

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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
Col. x+1, Fr. 1[///]
Col. x+1, Fr. 2[///]j nb wj mj [///]
Col. x+2, Fr.1[///]p.kwj m [///]
Col. x+2, Fr. 2[///] wnmw nn(?) mk.t=j .?. [///]
Col. x+3, Fr. 1[///].kwj jn wḥm[///]
Col. x+3, Fr. 2[///]=j jw=f m sḏm (nj?) [///]
Col. x+4, Fr. 3[///]ꜥ jw=k mj jḫ.t [///]
Col. x+4, Fr. 4[///]ꜣ Gb(?) .?. [///]
Col. x+4, Fr. 5 [///].?. jr.y [///]
Col. x+4, Fr. 6[///]=j jn wḥmw [///]
V
Col. 1ḏḏ nb.t-pr Wꜣḏ[.t]
Col. 2ꜥḥꜣ(?).tj sp(?)-snw(?) .?.
line x+1jnj.n(=j?) m ꜣbw .?.
line x+2nṯr(?) .?.
R
Col. x+1, Fr. 1[///]
Col. x+1, Fr. 2[///] every [///] me like [///]
Col. x+2, Fr. 1[///] I have done [///] in [///]
Col. x+2, Fr. 2[///] eating. There is(?) not my protection .?. [///]
Col. x+3, Fr. 1[///] I have done [///] by the message / herald [///]
Col. x+3, Fr. 2[///] I [///], while he is hearing .?. [///]
Col. x+4, Fr. 3[///] while you are like [///]
Col. x+4, Fr. 4[///] .?. [///]
Col. x+4, Fr. 5[///] .?. [///]
Col. x+4, Fr. 6[///] I [///] by the message / herald [///]
V
Col. 1Given by the mistress oft he house, Wadjet.
Col. 2Beware(?), beware(?)! .?.
line x+1(I?) have brought .?. in Elephantine(?)
line x+2.?. godly/oft he god(?) .?.

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Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
12th dynasty 12/13th dynasty (MK), palaeographical dating;

 

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Literature

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.