Pap. Cairo EM JdE 36499
Fragmentary Wine Account
TAD C.3.01 RÉS 1791 = Cairo no. 3466
Metadata
- Collection
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt | EM (Public)
- Keywords
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- Account
- Economic | Document
- list
- ration list
- Record Roll
- Find Type
- Acquisition
- Locus
- unknown.
- Acquired
- see notes.
- Material
- papyrus
- Text Direction Side 1
- parallel (∥) to the material's lines
- Text Direction Side 2
- blank
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-08-23
- Date (Composition)
- Gregorian -650 to -600
General Notes
Collected by Spiegelberg in Saqqara near the Grave of Ptaḥ-ḥotep (Lidz. EsE III, 128).
Textual Notes
That this is an account of wine spelled with the Phoenician rather than Aramaic word YN, supports my interpretation of the script. Compare ID 11203 which is a similar situation
Characteristics of the script are Phoenician, and given the context of Saqqara one should consider this not to be "7th Cent BCE" as TAD places it but rather in the (later half of the) 5th century. The names appear to be syro-mesopotamian.
The first surviving name is babylonian. The name below it should be read as beginning with Nabû◦◦... The third name may be either phoenician Srs or Wrw... I'm inclined to read Srs. One wonders if the end of the lines are better to the hand of Nabû?
Moore, James D.. 'Pap. Cairo EM JdE 36499.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10635. Accessed: 25 Aug, 2026.