Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.9a-b

Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.9a-b
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Publication Status	unpublished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 Papyri, 26 Feb. 1894” was marked on paper enclosing these fragments. 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 fragments of papyri. 47.218.9a-1: 13 fragments; the all belong to the same document. 47.218.9a-2: 14 fragments that belong to different documents. 47.218.9b: 300+ fragments Condition: Very bad. Hopeless to attempt to assemble these fragments as no connected portions of text remain intact.
Mounting	(unknown)
Restoration Activities	Received folded in tissue. Now placed in box with glass top.

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
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting	47.218.9a-1: 13 fragments, many inscribed in Late Period hieratic; the all belong to the same document. 47.218.9a-2: 14 fragments, many inscribed in Late Period hieratic that belong to different documents. 47.218.9b: 300+ fragments, many inscribed in Late Period hieratic; quite a number appear to be uninscribed.
Existing Pictorial Elements	Some fragments of painted scenes.

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	(Unknown)
Summary of Content	47.218.9a-1: 13 fragments. The small size of the fragments allows only the reading of the signs of a word or two, not enough to identify the original content of the text that they came from. 47.218.9a-2: 14 fragments that belong to different documents. At least one fragment belongs to 47.218.87A (Eye Papyrus). Another has the word pr-aA. The small size of the fragments allows only the reading of the signs of a word or two, not enough to identify the original content of the text that they came from. Possibly part of Book of the Dead received in 1935.
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
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty)				-664 BCE -332 BCE	probably Saite Period, paleographical dating;

CUR.47.218.9a_fragment

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	318113
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 318113 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.9a-b), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.