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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.25a-b

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Metadata

Collection

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Publication Status	unpublished

Origin / Provenance

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

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.

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
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.

 

Text Content

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	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)

 

 

Dates

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) ;

 

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Literature

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.