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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.8

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.8
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Publication Status unpublished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 Unknown, but probably Elephantine. Container unmarked. Possible 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 Several hundred small papyrus fragments. Condition: very fragmentary.
Mounting (unknown)
Comments on Object Medium Box of Fragments: 2 1/4 x 6 7/16 x 8 1/2 in. (5.7 x 16.4 x 21.6 cm) Cartouche Fragment: 1 3/16 × 1 3/8 in. (3 × 3.5 cm) Measurements: max. size, c. 3.5cm. Dimensions: Typical fragments from a random sampling were c. 3.5 x 2.5 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) Mass of small papyrus fragments inscribed recto and verso in Hieratic, black and red. Fragm. 1: 1 column of text preserved, possibly 2-3 lines of text above. Fragm. 2: 2 columns of text preserved.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting Large, clear script of early type. Fragm. 2: "Note: This disposition of the signs wdjA quail chick following verticla sign, I've seen so far forthe OK only on PT, Abusir papyri, and a prestigious Elephantine letter from Strasbourg. in other letters the quail chick goes before the vertical sign." (Almansa-Villatoro).
Comments on Text Layout inscribed recto and verso in Old Kingdom Hieratic, black and red. Fragm. 1: first preserved line of text written in red

 

Text Content

Modern Title Private letter and/or account
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Presumably a private letter. One fragment has a partial cartouche with nfr-kA-ra, the praenomen of Pepi II. Nb. (ORourke) These fragments have been mentioned in the scholarly literature as coming from an Old Kingdom royal funerary archive. A careful study of them suggests that such an identification is not the case. Rather, they are from letters and other documents belonging to private persons. Several letters from Wilbour may be instructive here: Tuesday Jan. 10, 1882 “I went over to Elephantine and was assailed by a crowd of women and children and soon loaded Said with inscribed potsherds…one offered to show me where they dug fragments of papyrus out of the ground; she said there been some there in a little room. I went in and in a little while she and others picked out from the rubbish some small fragments, scarce large enough to tell their language.” Fragment 1: "part of an account" (Almansa-Villatoro) Fragment 2: content unknown, due to fragmentary condition. Thursday Jan. 12, 1882 “I went over with Said to Elephantine and harvested the pint of papyrus fragments my women had picked out from the mine. We got a few more ostraca, making about one hundred twenty in all.”
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
side 1
fragm. 1_1 n ḥr bw sj nht
fragm. 2_1 jr.t
fragm. 2_2 wḏꜣ j
side 1
fragm. 1_1
fragm. 2_1
fragm. 2_2 well
CUR.47.218.8--1_R_001
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CUR.47.218.8-2_R_001
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CUR.47.218.8-3_R_001
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fragments_8.1a_R_001
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Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
06th dynasty -2288 BCE -2194 BCE Dynasty 6, reign of Neferkare Pepi II; -2244 / -2194;

 

Pictures

CUR.47.218.8--1_R_001
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CUR.47.218.8-2_R_001
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CUR.47.218.8-3_R_001
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fragments_8.1a_R_001
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318112
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 318112 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.8), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.