Find spot:
P. ME Torino Suppl. 6077 B (= P. Tor. Botti 25; TM 45098) belongs to the archive of Totoes and Tatehathyris, discovered in 1905 during excavations of the Museo Egizio Torino, in two sealed jars in a house near the Hathor temple at Deir el-Medina ("House G"). The sealed jars were opened in the Museo Egizio. Inside, several papyrus scrolls were found, wrapped by linen or papyri, some of which had archival notes and/or seals. Unfortunately, when the jars and papyrus scrolls were opened, the arrangement of the individual papyri within the jars was not noted, so that an exact assignment of the individual documents to the jars, the scrolls and the linen or seals is not assured completely until now. In total, there were 53 papyri in approximately 33 to 35 scrolls (on the discovery and history of the archive in detail: Uggetti, Archives Totoès et TatéhathyrisUggetti, L., Les archives bilingues de Totoès et de Tatéhathyris I-II (Archive ouverte HAL; Paris, 2018)., 2-55). P. ME Torino Suppl. 6077 B (= P. Tor. Botti 25; TM 45098, BC 108 Oct 20) is assigned to scroll 14 that also contained P. ME Torino Supp. 6090 (= P. Tor. Botti 24; TM 45097; Demotic lease contract for three liturgical days, BC 100 Jan 15).
Preservation:
The papyrus is in a good state of preservation. All edges of the papyrus are nearly undamaged. Its dimensions are 79 cm wide and 31 cm high. The papyrus consists of 5 kollemata (1 kollesis right on left). The visible width of the kollemata measured from the right edge of the recto (approx.): (1) 18 cm; (2) 16.5 cm; (3) 16 cm;.(4) 15,5 cm; (5) 13 cm. The recto of the papyrus shows for kollema (1), which is a protective sheet for the rolled papyrus, a vertical fibre course, whereas kollemata (2)-(5) possess a horizontal fibre course. The papyrus was rolled up from left to right (Uggetti, op.cit., II. 188-189).
Textlayout:
The recto of P. ME Torino Suppl. 6077 B (= P. Tor. Botti 25) is inscribed with three lease contracts (A-B-C) on kollemata (2) to (5). Kollema (1) is blank. The distances between this three inscription panels and the papyrus edges or the adjacent inscription panel are, with a few exceptions, almost uniform: (A) top 4.5 cm, bottom 9.2 cm, right inclusive kollema (1) 19.5 cm, left to adjacent inscription panel (B) 3 cm (A: 25 lines, inscription panel: width 16 cm, height 16.8 cm); (B) top 5.8 cm, bottom 6, left to adjacent inscription panel (C) 2.5 cm (B: 27 lines, inscription panel: width 16 cm, height 18.8 cm); (C) top 5.8 cm, bottom 2, left to papyrus edge 7 cm (C: 26 lines, inscription panel: width 15 cm, height 17.8 cm). On verso there are three identical lists of 16 witness signatures (A-B-C) centred in the back of the inscription panels of the contracts (A-B-C).
Dating and scribe:
All three contracts (A-B-C) have the same date (10.t i҆bd-2 ꜣḫ.t sw-2, BC 108 Oct 20 under Cleopatra III, Ptolemaios IX Soter II (1st reign in Egypt), both rulers namend) and were written by the same scribe, Chestephnachthes (B; P155), son of Harpaesis/Harsiesis (A; P154) (in this text edition, the Pers ID’s of Uggetti, Archives Totoès et TatéhathyrisUggetti, L., Les archives bilingues de Totoès et de Tatéhathyris I-II (Archive ouverte HAL; Paris, 2018)., I. 194-404, are given for all persons mentioned; see there especially: Family tree of the family of Totoes (P21), I. 194; Family tree of the family of Tatehathyris (P44), I. 227; on the family of the scribes Chestephnachthes and Harsiese, I. 404-421).
Parties and subjects of the contract:
All documents (A-B-C) are lease contracts with the same contract partners. Tatehathyris (P44), daughter of Psenminis (D; P42) and wife of Totoes (P21), owner of the archive, is the lessor. Leaseholder is her brother Pikos (B; P45). Contract (A) concerns the lease of a parcel of a highland field in the domain of Amun in Pestemenophis, called 'The Point', which is often mentioned in other documents from the archives of the Totoes (Uggetti, op.cit., I. 475-485) and of a third of the Patinis dike, both for the duration of one year. Contract (B) concerns the lease of either one third of a house in the southern quarter of Djeme inside the wall (Uggetti, op.cit., I. 468-470), the other two thirds of which belongs already to Pikos (B; P45), as well as one third of a construction in direction of the Medinet Habou quay (pꜣ ḳl n Ḥḳ-Ỉwn.w). Here, too, the lease term is fixed for one year. Contract (C) concerns the lease of endowment-days for one year at two different sanctuaries: 6 2/3 days in the temple of Hathor regent of the West (Uggetti, op.cit., I. 443-456) and 12 days in the Chapel of Isis in the northern district of Djeme (Uggetti, op.cit., I. 456-458).