Reinhardt Papyrus

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The Papyrus Reinhardt , an ancient Egyptian papyrus , is now in the Egyptian Museum Berlin with the museum number P 3063. It was probably acquired by Carl Reinhardt (1856–1903) in Egypt between the years 1885 and 1888 and sold to the museum in 1888 at the latest. The papyrus is made up of numerous small and large fragments that once belonged to a single document.

The Reinhardt papyrus is very likely to date to the 21st dynasty , around 950 BC. It is a land register of fields in the 10th Upper Egyptian Gau ( Wadjit ). The papyrus lists individual fields. It gives the name of the owner, which is mostly the Amun temple in Thebes . This is followed by the name of an administrator, who is usually a high official, and finally the name of the person who tills the field. These are lower officials, but also soldiers. It is not certain whether the latter actually tilled the field or whether there were other farmers among them who are not mentioned in the papyrus. Finally, the quantities of grain produced by the individual fields are named.

literature

  • Sven P. Vleeming : Papyrus Reinhardt. An Egyptian Land List from the Tenth Cent. BC (= Hieratic Papyri from the Berlin State Museums, Prussian Cultural Heritage, Delivery II ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-002005-9 .