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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.7

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Metadata

Collection

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Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

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

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.

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) 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.

 

Text Content

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)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
06th dynasty -2350 BCE -2170 BCE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

Brookl_47.218.7_box_S1
Reserved Copyright
Brookl_47.218.7_box_vi
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

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.