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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Publication Status | unpublished |
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 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) |
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. |
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) |
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; |
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. |