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Or 6943 (1)-(12)

Record Id:
032-003464602
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003464602
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6943 (1)-(12)
Title:
Miscellaneous Documents (Or 6943 (1)-(12), TM 47746, TM 47741 (2-5), TM 47748 (6-10), TM 47747 (11), TM 47743 (12))
Scope & Content:

Fragment 1 (Or 6943 (1), Crum ST 96, SB Kopt.3 1395 TM 47746): a settlement of debt (release). The issuer of the text and creditor of the money is Paeion, the person paying back the debt is Kako, Patermoute`s (Patermouthis) wife. In the present text Paeion acknowledges to have received the full amount from Kako and that she no longer owes him anything. Petros is scribe and witness of the text and transaction. The text contains no date.

Fragments 2-5 (Or 6943 (2)-(5), Crum ST 181, TM 47741): A letter to Patermoute and his family concerning a dispute. The name of the sender is not preserved. From the text remains it can be read that a woman called Tsia is opposing someone or something. The text also refers to the living-room (symposion) of Tlou, Kako`s grandmother, but it is not clear who is in possession of it.

Fragment 11 (BASP 32, Nr.3; SB Kopt.3 1666; TM 47747): Very little of the text can be deciphered due to the poor preservation of the fragment. The contents cannot be determined. 11 might have formed one piece with Fragment 12, which makes sense on its own, so the relationship of the two texts is unclear.

Fragment 12 (Or 6943 (12), BASP 32, Nr.2, SB Kopt.3 1394, TM 47743): Document concerning a debt owed to Patermoute. There are no signatories or witnesses. The piece possibly belonged together with Fragment 11, but since the present piece makes sense on its own, the relationship between the two texts is unclear.

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Coptic Manuscripts
Papyri Collections
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003464602
Is part of:
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Hierarchy:
032-003464602
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:

Fragment 1: Two fragments of a papyrus sheet which preserves the complete text of 8 lines written against the fibres. The smaller fragment follows the larger fragment, it is immediately below it. Fragments 2-5: the four fragments belonged to one and the same document, which is incomplete. 9 incomplete lines are preserved, written along the fibers. Fragment 11: Fragment of a papyrus sheet of light colour, with damaged surface, incomplete. Fragment 12: Fragment of a papyrus sheet, broken off at the top and sides, its surface damaged.

Digitised Content:
Languages:
Coptic
Scripts:
Coptic
Start Date:
0500
End Date:
0699
Date Range:
6th century-7th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Fragments 1-12: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Fragment 1: 71 x 231 mm + 20 x 225 mm; Fragment 2: 122 x 178 mm, Fragments 3: 16 x 61 mm, Fragment 4: 64 x 81 mm, Fragment 5: 55 x 80 mm; Fragment 11: 115 x 125 mm; Fragment 12: 130 x 169 mm.

Script: Fragment 1: A compactly written majuscule, with some letters enlarged and a few ligatures. Fragments 2-5: An irregularly and sometimes loosely written majuscule hand with a few ligatures and some spikey forms of letters. Fragment 11: a practiced documentary hand, with even lines and regular letters, with supralinear strokes, and no ligatures. Fragment 12: Probably the same hand as 11. A practiced documentary hand, with even lines and regular letters, with supralinear strokes, and no ligatures.

Custodial History:

Origin: Elephantine / Syene, Egypt.

Provenance: Syene or Elephantine?

Modern acquisition: Purchased by Robert de Rustafjaell in Egypt in February 1907; purchased by the British Museum from Rustafjaell on 12 November 1907

Former External References:
BASP 32, Nr.2
BASP 32, Nr.3
Crum ST 181
Crum ST 96
SB Kopt.3 1394
SB Kopt.3 1395
SB Kopt.3 1666
Publications:

Fragment 1:

S. Clackson, 'Four Coptic Papyri from the Patermouthis Archive in the British Library', Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 32 (1995), pp. 97-116, Nr. 4

W. E. Crum, Short Texts from Coptic Ostraca and Papyri (Oxford University Press, 1921), Nr. 96

M. R. M. Hasitzka, Koptisches Sammelbuch III, Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer) 23, 3, München – Leipzig 2006, Nr. 1395

Fragments 2-5:

S. Clackson, 'Four Coptic Papyri from the Patermouthis Archive in the British Library', Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 32 (1995), pp. 97-116, Nr. 1

W. E. Crum, Short Texts from Coptic Ostraca and Papyri (Oxford University Press, 1921), Nr. 181

M. R. M. Hasitzka, Koptisches Sammelbuch III, Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer) 23, 3, München – Leipzig 2006, Nr. 1293

Fragment 11:

S. Clackson, 'Four Coptic Papyri from the Patermouthis Archive in the British Library', Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 32 (1995), pp. 97-116, Nr. 3

M. R. M. Hasitzka, Koptisches Sammelbuch III, Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer), Neue Serie XXIII, 3 (Wien 2006), Nr. 1666

Fragment 12:

S. Clackson, 'Four Coptic Papyri from the Patermouthis Archive in the British Library', Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 32 (1995), pp. 97-116, Nr. 2

M. R. M. Hasitzka, Koptisches Sammelbuch III, Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer), Neue Serie XXIII, 3 (Wien 2006), Nr. 1394

Metadata provided by the ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Patermouthis (Patermoute), archive owner, 6th century
Places:
Elephantine Island, Aswan, Aswān, Egypt, Africa
Elephantine, Egypt
Related Material:

The fragments belong to the Patermouthis archive (TM Arch id: 37).