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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 35.1458

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 35.1458
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Publication Status unpublished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
State of Preservation The papyrus is badly mutilated and has numerous holes. Several of the fragments have been placed upside down.
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) Approximately 23 lines of hieratic text have been preserved.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting Only a few isolated phrases and words can be read.

 

Text Content

Modern Title Amuletic Papyrus
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian | magical
Summary of Content The dimensions of the text and the traces of some of the signs suggest that these fragments may have come from an Oracular Amuletic Decree.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
New Kingdom 1292 CE 1075 CE Ramesside Period (probably);

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318099
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 318099 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 35.1458), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.