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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.131 [Demotic]

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.131 [Demotic]
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details container marked "6"
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery purchase
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Wilbour, Charles Edwin
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution bequest
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1947 and 1947
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) “Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour.”
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Several fragments of different format
Mounting kept in paper folders

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) fragments only
Script, Primary Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Layout undetectable due to the fragmentary condition.

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragments from different accounts
Ancient Archives Chnoum temple archives | administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content Fragments from accounts. Parts of names, numbers and fractions. Name Espmetis is mentioned. Content unclear due to fragmentary condition. Fragment 3 with checking marks in front of the names at the line beginnings.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
Brooklyn_47.218.131_IR
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Brooklyn_47.218.131_IR
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Brookl_47.218.131_frag
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Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late period - Early Ptolemaic dynasty -664 BCE -222 BCE Date currently unclear.;

 

Pictures

Brooklyn_47.218.131_IR
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Brooklyn_47.218.131_IR
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Brookl_47.218.131_frag
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Brookl_47.218.131_frag
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Brookl_47.218.131_frag
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Brookl_47.218.131_frag
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Brookl_47.218.131_frag
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Brookl_47.218.131_frag
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307457
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 69482
Author Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata); Daniela C. Härtel (photos)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307457 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.131 [Demotic]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata); Daniela C. Härtel (photos).