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Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.224a-b |
Current Location | New York, Brooklyn Museum |
Comments on Inventory | Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour 12/19/2003: There is a note in the Registrar's Accession sheets for 35.1327 - 35.1444 that these numbers for these amulets were cancelled by Mr. Cooney in January 1942 and the objects were assigned the accession numbers 16.580mn. It is impossible to match the cancelled accession number with the accession number in 16.580mn. (S.Leverock, Registrar). |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication upon enquiry only |
Publication Status | unpublished |
Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
Ancient Provenance Details | ‘Elephantine, Feb. 1890’ marked on container. |
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 Type | papyrus |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Restoration impossible. |
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) | Condition: Very bad. Only a few fragments have more than one of two signs preserved. | |
Script, Primary | Hieratic | |
Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
Comments on Handwriting | Mass of papyrus fragments of an accounting papyrus in Hieratic, red and black. Relatively large clear hand. All pieces very small. They possibly form part of larger text with fragment groups 16.580.224-16.580.227, 16.580.228, 16.580.229, and 35.1451. | |
Comments on Text Layout | Dimensions: most of the inscribed in hieratic are smaller than 3 cm2. Nb. The fragments under the accession number 16.580.224 are blank. (but compare the photos in contrary to this note from the Brroklyn database). |
Modern Title | papyrus fragments of unclear content |
Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Papyrus fragments of unclear content due to their fragmentary condition. |
Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Middle Kingdom | -1938 BCE -1630 BCE | XII-XIII dynastie; paleographical dating ; |
DatasetID | 318087 |
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 318087 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.224a-b), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel. |