Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.5a-b [Demotic]
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.5a-b [Demotic] |
| 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unpublished |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) |
“Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour.”
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. |
| Script, Primary |
Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Demotic |
| Comments on Handwriting |
47.218.5a: |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
papyrus fragments from contracts and accounts |
| Ancient Archives |
(Uncertain) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
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| 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.
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| Location of Composition |
unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Religion |
Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Text
Dates
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Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) |
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-664 BCE -332 BCE |
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Literature
| DatasetID |
318109 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Author |
Verena Lepper, Daniela C. Härtel (Metadata); Jan Moje (Demotic) |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 318109 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.5a-b [Demotic]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper, Daniela C. Härtel (Metadata); Jan Moje (Demotic). |
