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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.6a-b

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.6a-b
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Publication Status unpublished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 Details Container marked ‘1 W’.
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 47.218.6b: Approximately 26 fragments that are between 4-6 cm. in height and 1-2 cm. in width. Additionally, there are another 100+ fragments of much smaller size whose dimensions are under 1 cm. in height and/or width.
Mounting (unknown)

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink polychrome black and red
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting Several different hands are evident in this group.
Comments on Text Layout Small group of papyrus fragments inscribed on recto only in red and black Hieratic.

 

Text Content

Modern Title Medical-magical text and several other texts
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian | magical
  • scientific | medicine
Summary of Content Most, if not all, of the identifiable fragments are from medical or prophylactic (magical) texts.
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 palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

CUR.47.218.6b_view1_04
Reserved Copyright
CUR.47.218.6b_view3_04
Reserved Copyright
CUR.47.218.6b_view2_04
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318110
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 318110 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.6a-b), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.