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| 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| Publication Status | unpublished |
| 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 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. |
| 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. | |
| Modern Title | Medical Text |
| Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
| Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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| 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) |
| 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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| Reserved Copyright |
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. |
