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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Publication Status | unpublished |
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 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. |
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 |
Modern Title | Private letter and/or account |
Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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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) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||
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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; |
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. |