Pap. Ber. P. 13444A- P. 13444-12 (+) P. 13444-8 + P. 23140-59 (+) P. 13444-11 (+) P. 23140-5 + P.13444-7
TAD D.02.25 | ERC 307790
Metadata
- Collection
- Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin, Germany | ÄMP (Public)
- Genre
-
- Contract
- Languages
- Aramaic, Egyptian (all periods and dialects)
- Script
- Aramaic
- Find Type
- Excavation
- Acquired
- Otto Rubensohn and Fredriech Zucker [1906–1907]
- Created by
- James D. Moore
- Material
- papyrus
- Text Direction Side 1
- perpendicular (⟂) to the material's lines
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
- References
-
- Lepper, Verena M. et al. . erc 307790.
- Porten, Bezalel and Yardeni, Ada 1986. D.02.25.
General Notes
P. 23140-77 (TBA) TAD D.2.25
Edited with Pl. P. 13444A (ID no. 307790).
TAD’s concordance in D vol. labels this as Demotic.
fragments on plate
13444-7 13444-8 13444-9 13444-11 13444-12 23140-5 23140-59
Moore layout differs from TAD, both of which differ from plate’s arrangement.
Fragment 65/8 contains the top of a ל, which is not represented in TAD’s handcopy. It is also the same width as fragment 65/7, which suggests that the two belong to the same column of papyrus. The vertical fibers on the recto are not definitive matches due to deterioration, but may still belong together. The width of the contract was possibly c. 24 cm, as the middle column of papyrus appears to be around 8 cm wide. One can expect columns 1 and 3 to be similar.
“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
Porten, Bezalel, and Ada Yardeni. Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt. 4 vols. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1986.
Textual Notes
TAD recto
1. [...]◦◦[...]{א|י}ו ◦◦[...] מל[...]
2. [...]◦ בנ[...]ישאלונני ע[לדבר ...] הנ[...]
3. [...]כתי[ב ב]ספרא זנה לא[...]בתנ{ח|כ}[...]
4. [...]כתב[...]◦◦◦ אתוב ◦[...]
5. [...א]בג[ר]נ כס[פ ]כרשנ חמשה[ באבני מלכא]
6. [...]◦אל בר תחנומ ספרא[ זנ]ה[...]
7. ⸣sẖ⸢ Mḥ-⸣ỉmn(?)⸢[...(?) sꜢ] ỉꜥḥ-ms ⸣tp=⸢(f)(?)
8. שהד פטמ[ונ בר ... שהד ]זבדי ב[ר ש]כאל [שהד ... בר]
9. חמנ שה[ד ... ב]ר בית[אל ... שהד ... בר ...]
10. שהד[ ... בר ... שהד ... בר ...]
11. [כתב מעוזיה בר נתנ (בר ענני) ספרא זנה]
Text and Translation
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James Moore Last updated 20 October, 2025 by James D. Moore
James Moore Last updated 20 October, 2025 by James D. Moore
[...]◦◦[...]{ˀW | [...]YW} ◦◦[...] ◦◦[...]
{[...]◦SG | [...]◦SH}[... satisfies (?) ]our heart (?). ⸢And they shall interrogate me ab[out ...]ML[...]
[... ]◦ˀL[...] is wri[tt]en [in] this document. Not[...] If,]
[...]⸢L⸣[... shall ]⸢g⸣ive ⸢it⸣[...]
[...] wro⸢te⸣[...]◦◦◦ I shall return ◦[...]
[...]◦ si⸢lv⸣[er ]five ⸢ka⸣rš [according to the stone (weights) of the king]
[... PN] son of Taḥnûm [thi]⸢s⸣ document[...]
Countersigned by Maha[mounis, son] of Amasis, persona[lly].
⸢Wi⸣tness: Peṭeam[ûn son of PN. Witness: ]Zabdî so[n of Ša]⸢k⸣ˀel. [Witness: PN son of]
Ḥaman. Wi⸢t⸣[ness PN so]⸢n of⸣ Bayit([...])[ Witness PN son of PN]
⸢Witness:⸣[ PN son of PN. Witness: PN son of PN
[...]◦◦◦◦[...]
Written by Nebemmouthis, (son) of Pa[...]
Moore, James D.. 'Pap. Ber. P. 13444A- P. 13444-12 (+) P. 13444-8 + P. 23140-59 (+) P. 13444-11 (+) P. 23140-5 + P.13444-7.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10645. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.