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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 35.2256

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 35.2256
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Publication Status unpublished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 Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details Elephantine, 1889. Place collected: Elephantine Island Egypt.
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

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Hundreds of papyrus fragments. Condition: Very incomplete. Possibly a few fragments of interest can be salvaged.
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) Hundreds of papyrus fragments inscribed in Hieratic or Demotic. Portions of many documents of various periods. One piece of possible interest folded over several times. A few fragments of a Book of the Dead.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Script, additional A Demotic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Language, additional A Demotic

 

Text Content

Modern Title Book of the Dead and many other different texts
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious-literary | polytheistic Egyptian | Book of the Dead
Summary of Content Content unclear due to fragmentary condition. Portions of many documents of various periods. One piece of possible interest folded over several times. A few fragments of a Book of the Dead.
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
-650 BCE -300 BCE Late Period to Roman Period.;

 

Pictures

Brookl_35.2256_view01_
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318101
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 318101 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 35.2256), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.