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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 35.1454

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 35.1454
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Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

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

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
State of Preservation (Text) The papyrus has 13 lines of text. There are four sizable holes as well as several breaks of lesser size. There are also places where the surface of the papyrus is abraded making the reading of some signs difficult if not impossible.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Existing Pictorial Elements a vignette in the lower left quadrant. The vignette shows the Theban triad of Amun, Mut, and Khonsu, an image of the Solar-Osirian unity; and a lion-headed human figure who is Bes in all likelihood.

 

Text Content

Modern Title Amuletic Text, Illustrated Ppyrus
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content An amuletic or protection text for a Henut-Amunet, untitled, daughter of Tayu-Henut, against a variety of evils.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Woman
Comment on Gender A woman as the one for whom this amulet papyrus was made.
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
New Kingdom 1292 CE 656 CE late Ramesside Period to the early Third Intermediate Period;

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318098
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 318098 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 35.1454), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.