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Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 35.1453a-b |
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Publication Status | unpublished |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 |
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution | between 1935 and |
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 | Fragment A: "The text, written perpendicularly to the verticla fibres, is complete on all margins except the lower one." (Condon). Fragment A (other side): " This text, written parallel to the horizontal fibres, appears to be complete except for the top margin and the end of line three" (Condon). Fragment B: "It is [...] less well preserved, less legible, and rubbed thin" [in comparison to fragment A] (Condon). Fragment B (verso): "The left-hand and bottom margins are complete, but a substantial portion of the text is missing on the right and an unknown number of lines is missing at the top." (Condon). Fragment B (recto): "the text seems to be complete on all margins except the right-hand one, where a large part is lost." (Condon). |
Mounting | (unknown) |
Localization of Text on Object | recto | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | parallel (recto) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink polychrome black and red | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
Script, Primary | Hieratic | |
Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
Comments on Handwriting | Two sheets of an accounting papyrus inscribed on both recto and verso. Sheet A has 26 lines of text on recto and 11 on verso. Text B has 11 lines of text and recto and 11 on verso. Fragment A: several words in red ink. Fragement B (recto): The use of red ink is inconsistent (Condon). | |
Comments on Text Layout | "Both sides appear to contain traces of a previously-erased text whose lines were perpendicular to those of the present text." (Condon). |
Modern Title | Accounting Papyrus and possibly a hymn to Aten(?) |
Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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Summary of Content | Account. Originally published as two separate papyri, the two sheets are probably different pages of the same account. The content deals with the distribution or sale of goods, namely, garments and honey by women. "Fragment A deals largely with the sixth Upper-Egyptian nome while B probably deals with nome V" (Condon). Fragment A, other side: "lists several women, their parents and their residence, followed by deliveries of specified quantities of a variety of objects." (Condon). "It is dabatable whether or not the text records the distribution by te temple (or state) of payments, in the form of rations, to temple (or harim) workers." (Condon). Fragment B: (side with vertical fibres): possibly a hymn to the Aten or a similar text? Fragment B (verso): The text "records the expediting [...] and arrival of certain quantities of various linen goods, deficts where applicable, and the names of two men and ther fathers." (Condon) Fragment B (recto): "This fragment is divided informally into columns, of which the first extant column contains the names of the mothers of women whose names (and whose fathers' names) are now lost at the beginning of the column. The names of their places of residence are preserved in the same column, after which are listed deficits and deliveries, chiefly of linen and honey." "whether the inidivdduals are the recipients or the donors (ddebtors?) of the deliveries and deficits is unclear." (Condon). |
Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Woman |
Comment on Gender | The content deals with the distribution or sale of goods, namely, garments and honey by women. "Coincidentally, no doubt, many of these names bear a close similarity or identity to a particular group of names of royal concubines of the Amarna period and from the Theban area" (Condon). "However, since nearl all of the personal names in the present texts are of such common occurence during the New Kingdom, including the Amarna period, the possibility of associating them with any persons already known from other sources is remote." (Condon). |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
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RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
New Kingdom | -1539 BCE -1292 BCE | late XVIII Dynasty-early XIX Dynasty, reign of Akhenaten or reign of Horemheb. "The fragment [A] can be dated somewhere around the late Amarna period by the abundance of names compounded with the element Aten and by the distinctive hieratic form of the alighting duck with a dot or dash added underneath." (Condon).; |
DatasetID | 318097 |
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 318097 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 35.1453a-b), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel. |