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Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.7 |
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Publication Status | unpublished |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 | ‘Elephantine, 17Feb. 1896’ marked on container. 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 | Numerous fragments—between 300-700 in number. Fragments seem to be from several documents, and of various periods. Restoration impossible due to fragmentary condition. |
Mounting | (unknown) |
Comments on Object | Measurements: All pieces small. Max. size, 4cm. Dimensions: The largest of a random sampling of fragments was c. 2.5 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) | Group of small papyrus fragments inscribed in red and black Hieratic. | |
Script, Primary | Hieratic | |
Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
Comments on Handwriting | Written in Old Kingdom hieratic/cursive hieroglyphs. Although the writing shows a very high level of consistency, the remains of this lot are too fragmentary to easily determine whether they were written by one and the same scribe. |
Modern Title | papyrus fragments of unclear content, obviously many different texts and documents |
Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Summary of Content | Content unclear due to fragmentary condition. |
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 |
06th dynasty | -2350 BCE -2170 BCE | palaeographical dating; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 318111 |
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 318111 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.7), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel. |