Pap. Berlin P. 9010

Collection	Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number	Pap. Berlin P. 9010
Current Location	magazine \| papyrus depository
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status	published

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	purchase Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	(unknown) Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Luxor
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	purchase
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1896 and 1896
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(unknown) Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Borchardt, Ludwig Certainty: high

Object Type	papyrus
Color	papyrus, dark
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The papyrus is broken horizontally into two large fragments with direct joins. The upper and left margins are complete; the lower margin is only slightly damaged. The right margin, however, is very fragmentary and a papyrus piece of unknown width is lost. There are three more fragments which cannot join, but their positioning to the right of the rest is clear.
Mounting	framed between glass

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	The first column is heavily damaged and only ink traces are visible. The damage of the ends of the other columns is practically negligible. It is likely that only parts of the first column are lost.
Script, Primary	Old Hieratic
Language, Primary	Old Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting	"ausgeprägte, großzügig geschriebene althieratische Kanzleischrift" (According to: Fischer-Elfert, 55)
Comments on Text Layout	The text is composed in vertical lines (columns). The space between the columns and the width of the quadrats are irregular. Twice in column 3, the scribe did not write two words consecutively in the vertical line of text but rather next to one another horizontally.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Columns	8
Line Distance	220x290

Ancient Title	Legal dispute about property and estate
Ancient Archives	private archive \| family archive of nomarchs
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary \| legal document
Summary of Content	The deceased Weser had appointed a man named Sobek-hetepu to be the property administrator of his estate. This authorization was mentioned in a document whose authenticity was disputed by Weser’s son Tjau. The court obligated Sobek-hetepu to bring three witnesses to confirm this matter by oath or else his claims would expire.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Transcription

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I	Sbk-ḥtp.w pn jm.j-rꜣ-jꜥꜣ.w Wsr
II	ḥm.t=f ẖrd.w=f jš.t=f nb m ẖnw=f r shr.t ẖrd.w
III	n.w Wsr pn jm jrı͗ ꜥꜣ r ꜥꜣꜣ=f jrı͗ šrj r šrr=f ḏd.n Ṯꜣw pn jwt-sp
IV	jrı͗ sw j tf=f m bw nb jr jnı͗ Sbk-ḥtp.w pn jr.w 3 jqr.w n.w nḫt ḥr=sn
IV	jrı͗.t=sn bꜣ.w=k r=f nṯr mj n.tt jrı͗.n=t w js sẖꜣ.w pn ḥft ḏd.w Wsr pn jm
VI	wnn m ẖnw Sbk-ḥtp.w pn jnı͗.n=f jr.w 3 pn n.w ḏd mdw.t tn r-gs=sn
VII	j sk Sbk-ḥtp.w pn m wnm n sbn=f jr nfr-n jnn=f jr.w 3 ḏd.w mdw.t tn
VIII	r-gs=sn n mn j ḫ.t nb .t jm=f n.t Wsr pn j:mn m sꜣ=f šps-nswt jm.j-rꜣ-jꜥꜣ.w Ṯꜣw

I	This [Sobek]-hetepu [///] overseer of foreign mercenaries Weser [///]
II	his wife, his children and all [his] property in his home to satisfy the children
III	of this Weser there by threating the great one [according to] (the fact) that he is great (and) by threating the little one [according to] (the fact) that he is little. This Tjau said that
IV	his father had nowhere made it. If this Sobek-hetepu can bring three reliable eye witnesses who may be trusted
V	(and if) they make (the oath): "May your Ba-power be against him - oh god!" to the effect that this document was indeed made in accordance with the words of th[is] Weser-[there].
VI	(It) shall be in his – (namely) Sobek-hetepu’s – home after he has brought these three eye witnesses in whose presence this speech was to be said.

VII	This Sobek-hetepu eats without damaging. If he does not bring the three eye witnesses in whose presence this utterance was made,

VIII	no one thing of this User shall remain with him; &lt;it> shall remain with his son, noble of the king and overseer of foreign mercenaries, Tjau.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
11470	man	Sobek-hetepu	Sbk-ḥtp.w	(none)

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
06th dynasty				-2707 BCE -2170 BCE	palaeographical dating;

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DatasetID	400008
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Martina Grünhagen; Matthias Müller; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 400008 (= Pap. Berlin P. 9010), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Matthias Müller; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.