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Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.205 |
Current Location | New York, Brooklyn Museum |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication upon enquiry only |
Publication Status | published |
Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: unknown |
Ancient Provenance Details | possibly Thebes? From or near Thebes (internal evidence)? But nothing is known definitely about the circumstances of its purchase. |
Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Discovery | find or purchase Certainty: high |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | Wilbour, Charles Edwin Certainty: high |
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution | donation |
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution | between 1916 and |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Wilbour, Theodora Certainty: high |
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
Object Type | papyrus |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Around 1916 the papyrus "was glued to a cardboard mount. This was removed and the papyrus mounted between glass in October, 1940." (Parker) "The preserved portion is in good condition." (Parker) |
Mounting | (unknown) |
Localization of Text on Object | recto | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (recto) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Preserved portion in good condition; right end fragmentary "and originally there may have been more columns of text now lost" (Parker) | |
Script, Primary | Hieratic | |
Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
Comments on Text Layout | "Under line 9 of col. 4 there are traces of four erased lines. The year number in lines 2 and 9 of col. 4 is written over an erasure but there are no clear traces of what was written first." (Parker) |
Modern Title | Oracle Papyrus |
Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Concerned with oracles. Four columns of text comprising three memoranda concerning of judicial oracular judgments by Khonsu in favor of one Ikeni. A fourth memorandum concerns certain payments by the same man. |
Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 added above the line 2 Four erased lines of text have folloewed, unfortunately lost.
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Places (read out from edition) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
21st dynasty | Year 49 of Psusennes I (Beckerath); |
DatasetID | 317983 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Author | Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 317983 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.205), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel. |