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Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.25a-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Publication Status | unpublished |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 | Not known, but possibly Elephantine. 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 | 47.218.25a, group A: 2 3/4 × 1 in. (7 × 2.5 cm) 47.218.25a, group B: 2 3/4 × 13/16 in. (7 × 2 cm) 47.218.25a-2: 2 9/16 × 13/16 in. (6.5 × 2 cm) 47.218.25b: 3 1/8 × 9/16 in. (8 × 1.5 cm) |
Mounting | (unknown) |
Comments on Object | 47.218.25a, group A: 100+ fragments 47.218.25a, group B: 120+ fragments 47.218.25a2: 150+ fragments 47.218.25b: 9 fragments; 4 fragments are large enough to show several lines of texts. The other 5 fragments are less than a centimeter square. |
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) | Group of papyri fragments of at least three separate documents inscribed in Hieratic. | |
Script, Primary | Hieratic | |
Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
Comments on Handwriting | 47.218.25a, group A: 100+ fragments, most inscribed in Late Period hieratic; a few appear to be uninscribed. 47.218.25a, group B: 120+ fragments inscribed in Late Period hieratic. The fragments show a number of different hands. 47.218.25a2: 150+ fragments inscribed in Late Period hieratic. The fragments show a number of different hands. 47.218.25b: 9 fragments inscribed in Late Period hieratic; 4 fragments are large enough to show several lines of texts and readable words | |
Existing Pictorial Elements | One fragment of priest with censer in hand. |
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 | |
Summary of Content | Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. 47.218.25a, group A: 100+ fragments. They clearly come from a number of different texts. 47.218.25a, group B: 120+ fragments. The size of the fragments makes certain identification of their content or possible connection with other texts problematic at the present time. 47.218.25a2: 150+ fragments. The size of the fragments makes certain identification of their content or possible connection with other texts problematic at the present time. 47.218.25b: 9 fragments inscribed in Late Period hieratic; 4 fragments are large enough to show several lines of texts and readable words but not enough to verify the original content of the text to which they belong. Probably some of fragments are from Book of the Dead. Three fragment groups of hieratic texts, at least two of which are medical. |
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 -30 BCE | 7th-4th century B.C.E., Late Period (paleographical dating) ; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 318120 |
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 318120 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.25a-b), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel. |