Berlin Papyrus P. 13447 and the Library of the Yehudite Colony at Elephantine

Berlin Papyrus P. 13447 was found along with a number of other papyri during the 1906-1908 German excavations at Elephantine. The papyrus was first published by Eduard Sachau in 1911; its first English language edition was A. E. Cowley's 1923 Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth Century B.C. In the 1970...

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Published in:Journal of Near Eastern studies 2017-04, Vol.76 (1), p.139-147
Main Author: Mitchell, Christine
Format: Article
Language:English
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Ancient civilizations
Ancient history
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Summary:Berlin Papyrus P. 13447 was found along with a number of other papyri during the 1906-1908 German excavations at Elephantine. The papyrus was first published by Eduard Sachau in 1911; its first English language edition was A. E. Cowley's 1923 Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth Century B.C. In the 1970s and early 1980s, more pieces were assigned to the papyrus, culminating in the Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum edition of 1982. The current standard edition is the Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt (TAD). There are two texts on the papyrus. The recto and first two columns of the verso contain an Aramaic version of Darius I's Bisitun inscription. The remainder of the verso contains a set of memoranda. Although the texts on the papyrus have been well-studied and published, especially in Cowley's edition and TAD, these publications obscure the composite nature of the papyrus scroll: the texts on the scroll have been presented in separate sections of the publications. Here, Mitchell highlights the relationship between the texts on the scroll, which is not well presented in either TAD or Cowley's work.
ISSN:0022-2968
1545-6978
DOI:10.1086/690226