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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.4

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.4
Current Location	New York, Brooklyn Museum
Comments on Inventory	Bequest of Miss Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin 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Publication Status	unpublished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	Container marked “W”. Possibly Elephantine. Possible place made: Elephantine 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	46 fragments with readable signs with an additional 22 fragments with indiscernible or no writing.
Mounting	(unknown)
Comments on Object	Measurements: Max. length, c. 8.5 cm. Dimensions of the fragments of the larger hand: The largest fragment is c. 3 x 3 cm.

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)	46 fragments with readable signs written in Late Period hieratic with an additional 22 fragments with indiscernible or no writing. Small group of papyrus fragments inscribed in red and black Hieratic. All small fragments. Probably very little of text is preserved.
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting	Several different hands can be isolated; one script is somewhat larger than the other. Small hand.

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Medical Text
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	religious | polytheistic Egyptian | magical scientific | medicine
Summary of Content	The text of the larger hand is medical, as a study of 6 fragments has indicated. The text appears to deal with ailments of the belly of the king as the phrase mt mt.t m X.t: “…dead male, dead female from/in the belly” found at the end of one spell, the phrase pr aA a.w.s.: “…pharaoh, l.p.h….” on the same fragment, and the phrase imy-Xt n pr aA a.w.s.: “…who/that which are in the belly of pharaoh, l.p.h…” on a third fragment attest. These fragments also give lists of medical ingredients with proportions for each. Several other fragments belong to another medical text. The nature of the other texts has yet to be determined.
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
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty)				-664 BCE 332 CE	Late Period, probably Saite Period;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	318107
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 318107 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.4), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.