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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.5a-b [Hieratic]

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.5a-b [Hieratic]
Current Location	New York, Brooklyn Museum
Comments on Inventory	Bequest of 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Publication Status	unpublished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	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	47.218.5a: 100+ papyrus fragments, many of these fragments are layered, and quite a number are in need of some hydration in order to be examined properly. Two fragments of cut and stained leather were found with these fragments. Condition: Bad. All fragments very dry and curled. Probably too fragmentary to assemble.
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)	47.218.5a: 100+ papyrus fragments inscribed in Late Period black and red hieratic, both recto and verso. Several may have demotic writing.
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting	47.218.5a: 100+ papyrus fragments inscribed in Late Period black and red hieratic, both recto and verso. Several may have demotic writing.

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Medical Text, Magical 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	Apparently several documents are represented. 47.218.5a-2: 100+ fragments inscribed in Late Period hieratic. What little can be read and the presence of written in red suggest that some of the fragments at least come from a medical or prophylactic text. 47.218.5b: 16 fragments, most of which are inscribed in early Demotic script. 9 of these are opisthographic. There are several small fragments inscribed in Late Period hieratic.
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 BCE	Late Period, Saite Period and later;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	318108
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 318108 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.5a-b [Hieratic]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.