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Nakhtnebef collateral letter, 201 or 200 B.C.

Author/Creator:
Nakhtnebef, son of Pamerour.
Publication:
201 or 200 B.C.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
1 item (1 leaf) : papyrus ; 255 x 96 mm
Status/Location:
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Subjects:
Beer -- Egypt.
Brewing -- Early works to 1800.
Loans -- Egypt.
Loans.
Brewing.
Beer.
Egypt.
Form/Genre:
Financial records.
Legal documents.
Mortgages.
Papyri (manuscripts)
Manuscripts, Digital.
Egyptian language.
Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)
Language:
Demotic, with a subscription in Greek.
Summary:
Guarantee by Nakhtnebef, son of Pamerour of Memphis, to Hor, son of Padiousir the brewer, that he will pay back the value of one-fifth of the brewery in Meidum (40 deben or 200 staters) within two days if called upon, pledging his house and possessions as collateral. Written in 25 lines of Demotic script on papyrus with signatures of five witnesses, including Padikhonsou, son of Amon; Padiousir, son of Semataouy; and Guédjadja, son of Nechthnibis. Dated in the month of Athyr in regnal year 5 of Pharaoh Ptolemy V (11 December 201 to 9 January 200 B.C.). In 2 faded lines of Greek added at the bottom in regnal year 6, Nechthnibis guarantees one fifth for 800 drachmas.
Local notes:
Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by Roger Lambert; sold by Lambert to Louis Leconte (P. Dém. 1).
Appears in the joint catalog of Antiquariaat Forum and Les Enluminures for the 20th Congress of the International Association of Bibliophiles (1997), no. 1.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 22 June 1999, lot 57.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Cited in:
Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 146 (LJS 309).
Publications about:
Published with a transcription and French translation by Devauchelle, Didier. Un cautionnement démotique: P. Dém. Leconte 1. In Revue d'égyptologie, 30 (1978), p. 67-73.
Description and proposed French translation of Greek subscription by Bonneau, Danielle. Souscription grecque du P. Dém. Leconte 1. In Revue d'égyptologie, 30 (1978), p. 74-77.
Cited as:
UPenn Oversize LJS 309
Contributor:
Hor, son of Padiousir, addressee.
Lambert, Roger, 1907- former owner.
Leconte, Louis, former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
OCLC:
731213086