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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.223a-c

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.223a-c
Current Location New York, Brooklyn Museum
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Publication Status unpublished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]
Type of Discovery find or purchase
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Wilbour, Charles Edwin
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt unknown
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution donation
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Wilbour, Charles Edwin
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation incomplete
Mounting (unknown)

Text Basic Information

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
Script, Primary Greek
Script, additional A Demotic
Script, additional B Hieratic
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Language, additional A Demotic
Language, additional B Middle Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout Description: Approximately 200 Fragments, most fragments inscribed in Greek, some in Demotic. At least four separate documents are represented. A few unrelated Hieratic fragments.

 

Text Content

Modern Title Papyrus Fragments Inscribed in Greek or Demotic and Hieratic
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content Content unclear due to fragmentary condition. few Greek fragments
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion unknown

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Roman Period -30 BCE 211 CE Paleographical dating;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318086
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 318086 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.223a-c), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.