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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.15a-b

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.15a-b
Current Location New York, Brooklyn Museum
Comments on Inventory Bequest of 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Publication Status unpublished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 unknown () [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District unknown () [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 unknown () [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 a: Glass: 5 x 7 1/16 in. (12.7 x 18 cm) a: Largest Fragment: 1 3/4 x 2 9/16 in. (4.5 x 6.5 cm) b: Glass: 8 1/4 x 10 1/8 in. (21 x 25.7 cm) b: Largest Fragment: 1 3/16 x 1 3/16 in. (3 x 3 cm)
Mounting (unknown)

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
Script, Primary Hieratic
Script, additional A Demotic
Script, additional B (none)
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Language, additional A Demotic
Language, additional B (none)
Comments on Handwriting Several Scripts: Demotic, Hieratic, Arabic, Greek. 47.218.15a: Three parchment fragments, one of which is inscribed in Demotic or, more likely, Arabic. The second has 6 lines of Greek on one side and a few Hieratic signs on the other. The third has indistinguishable writing. 47.218.15b: Approximately 18 fragments in Demotic. More than one hand distinguishable, but only a word or two can be read. 47.218.158c: Approximately 18 fragments inscribed in Hieratic. More than one hand is represented.

 

Text Content

Modern Title papyrus (and parchment) fragments of unclear content, obviously many different texts and documents in different languages
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content Unclear content due to the 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
Late period - Roman period Late Period to First Millennium C.E. (664 B.C.E.-1st Millennium C.E.), paleographical dating;

 

Pictures

CUR.47.218.15_view1_R_
Reserved Copyright
CUR.47.218.15_view2_R_
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318116
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 318116 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.15a-b), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.