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Title

Facsimile of LJS 309, Nakhtnebef collateral letter

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

6-30-2015

Files

Comments

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.

Keywords

Beer--Egypt, Brewing--Early works to 1800, Loans--Egypt Financial records, Legal documents, Mortgages, Papyri, Manuscripts Digital, Egyptian language--Papyri Demotic, Manuscripts Greek (Papyri)

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5004800

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs309.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 309, Nakhtnebef collateral letter" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 136.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/136