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| Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 35.1449.1a-n |
| Current Location | New York, Brooklyn Museum |
| Comments on Inventory | Gift of Theodora Wilbour |
| Publication Permission Status | permission for publication upon enquiry only |
| Publication Status | unpublished |
| Ancient Provenance Site | unknown () [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
| Ancient Provenance District | unknown () [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 | unknown () [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 | Papyrus Fragments |
| 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 | |
| Script, Primary | Hieratic | |
| Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
| Comments on Handwriting | The texts are written in cursive hieroglyphs. | |
| Existing Pictorial Elements | The vignettes are done in black ink with little or no painting to speak of. There are some traces of red in some of the vignettes. | |
| Modern Title | A Hieroglyphic Book of the Dead |
| Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
| Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Hundreds of fragments from what are probably two different hieroglyphic Books of the Dead. The spells that this papyrus comprises have yet to be determined, but a preliminary survey shows fragmentary text belonging to BD 146 and BD 149. |
| 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 |
| New Kingdom | -1539 BCE -1292 BCE | early XVIII Dynasty, paleographical dating; |
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID | 318094 |
| 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 318094 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 35.1449.1a-n), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel. |
