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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.041 [Demotic]

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.041 [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Publication Status	unpublished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 District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Wilbour, Charles Edwin Certainty:
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	Wide line pitch. Layout undetectable due to the fragmentary condition.

Text Content

Modern Title	account
Ancient Archives	Chnoum temple archives \| administrative archive
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [lost])
Text Types	documentary \| account
Summary of Content	Fragments presumably from one account. Parts of names and amounts visible. Content unclear due to fragmentary condition.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

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1

R

x+1

2

R

I
I. x+1
II
II. x+1	Pꜣ-
x+2	⸢Ns-⸣
x+3	⸢..?..⸣

3

R

x+1
x+2	Ḏd-ḥr(?)
x+3	wp-st

4

R

x+1	Sḏm
x+2

5

R

I
x+1
x+2	1½
II
x+1	sp
x+2
x+3	pꜣ
x+4
x+5	Ns-pꜣ-⸢mtr⸣
x+6	Ns-⸢mtr⸣
vso 1	Ns-Ḥr sꜣ Ḥr-
vso 2
vso 3	Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ Pꜣ-
vso 4	Ns-pꜣ-mtr sꜣ ⸢..?..⸣
vso 5	~~///~~
vso 6	Pa-
vso 7

6

R

x+1
x+2	Pꜣ-
x+3	Ns-⸢mtr⸣

7

R

x+1

R

x+1

1

R

x+1	[///]⸢..?..⸣ [///]

2

R

I
x+1	[///] ⸢..?..⸣
II
x+1	Pa[///]
x+2	Es[///]
x+3	⸢..?..⸣[///]

3

R

x+1	[///] ⸢..?..⸣
x+2	[///] Teos(?)
x+3	[///] Specification:

4

R

x+1	[///] ..?.. Stam[///]
x+2	[///] ⸢..?..⸣ [///]

5

R

I
x+1	[///] ⸢..?..⸣
x+2	[///]⸢..?..⸣ 1½
II
x+1	Rest [///]
x+2	..?.. [///]
x+3	..?.. [///]
x+4	..?..[///]
x+5	Espemtis [///]
x+6	Espemtis [///]
vso 1	Esyris, son of Hor⸢..?..⸣ [///]
vso 2	..?..
vso 3	Espmetis, son of Pa[///]
vso 4	Espmetis, son of ⸢..?..⸣[///]
vso 5	[[///]]
vso 6	Pa-..?..
vso 7	⸢..?..⸣ [///]

6

R

x+1	⸢..?..⸣ [///]
x+2	Pa⸢..?..⸣[///]
x+3	Espmetis [///]

7

R

x+1	[///] ⸢..?..⸣ [///]

R

x+1	[///] ⸢..?..⸣ [///]

Brooklyn_47.218.41_R_0

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Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Late period - Early Ptolemaic dynasty				-664 BCE -222 BCE	Dating by palaeography. Dating by prosopography.;

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Brooklyn_47.218.41_R_0

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Literature

Hughes, G. R. & Muhs, Brian & Vinson, S., Catalog of Demotic Texts in the Brooklyn Museum. (no. 45)

DatasetID	311174
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata); Verena Lepper (metadata)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 311174 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.041 [Demotic]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata); Verena Lepper (metadata).