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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.26

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Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.26
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Publication Status	unpublished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	“4 LA” written on container. Not known but possibly Elephantine.
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	Dimensions: 47.218.26, lot 1: 4 3/4 × 2 3/4 in. (12 × 7 cm) 47.218.26, lot 2: 2 3/16 × 1 3/16 in. (5.5 × 3 cm) 47.218.26, lot 3: 1 3/8 × 1 in. (3.5 × 2.5 cm) 47.218.26, lot 4: 5 1/2 × 2 3/8 in. (14 × 6 cm) 47.218.26, lot 5: 4 5/16 × 2 3/8 in. (11 × 6 cm) 47.218.26, lot 6: 5 1/8 × 1 9/16 in. (13 × 4 cm) 47.218.26, lot 7: 3 1/8 × 1 9/16 in. (8 × 4 cm) 47.218.26, lot 8: 3 1/8 × 1 in. (8 × 2.5 cm) 47.218.26, lot 9: 1 3/16 × 13/16 in. (3 × 2 cm) Two broken rolls with fragments as well as from other texts mixed in. (Consultant Notes).
Mounting	(unknown)
Restoration Activities	Current Condition: Housed in a large archival box (17 x 22 cm.).
Comments on Object	160+ fragments; they are currently subdivided into 9 separate lots. Lot 1: 54 fragments (first group of 17, second group consists of 7 small fragments and part of a broken or layered roll, Some 30+ fragments from the bottom of the box) Lot 2: a single layered fragment belonging to 47.218.75 + .86. Lot 3: thee small fragments, Lot 4: 2 parts of a broken roll, both layered and in need of conservation before the fragments can be separated. There are an additional 30 small, abraded fragments that appear to belong to these larger pieces. Lot 5: 7 fragments, seemingly all not from the same text. Lot 6: 18 fragments from a number of different texts. At least 4 of the largest fragments belong together. Lot 7: 3 fragments L0t 8: 23+ fragments from different texts; at least 1 fragment belongs to 47.218.87A. Lot 9: 14 small fragments from different texts.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink polychrome black and red
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting	inscribed in Late Period hieratic several texts and several hands Fragmentary roll of papyrus. Inscribed in Hieratic in red and black. Large, bold hand.
Existing Pictorial Elements	Lot 1, first group of 17: are from an illustrated prophylactic text. A large but damaged vignette shows a standing Thoth with the remnants of a column of text before and behind him. The vignette is from the bottom of the papyrus. Lot 3: one fragment with a partial vignette. Lot 7: 3 fragments, two with text and one with a partial vignette.

 

Text Content

Modern Title	papyrus fragments of several medical-magical texts, probably also Book of the Dead-fragments
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	religious | polytheistic Egyptian | magical religious-literary | polytheistic Egyptian | Book of the Dead scientific | medicine
Summary of Content	Lot 1, first group: from an illustrated prophylactic text. A large but damaged vignette shows a standing Thoth with the remnants of a column of text before and behind him. The vignette is from the bottom of the papyrus. The word pr-aA written occurs as does the phrase [i]Ad.t rnp.t: pestilence of the year. The second group: different text with uncertain content; third group: fragments from the bottom of the box are too damaged to offer insight. Lot 2: a single layered fragment belonging to 47.218.75 + .86. Lot 3: small fragments, two with cursive hieroglyphs (i.e. Book of the Dead?) and one with a partial vignette. That latter may belong to 47.218.87A. Lot 4: Appears to be from a prophylactic text. Lot 5: fragments, seemingly all not from the same text, of uncertain content. Lot 6: fragments from a number of different texts. At least 4 of the largest fragments belong together. Prophylactic and medical in content. Lot 7: 3 fragments, two with text and one with a partial vignette, of uncertain content. Lot 8: fragments from different texts; at least 1 fragment belongs to 47.218.87A. Lot 9: 14 small fragments from different texts of uncertain content. Broken Roll: Seemingly not a Book of the Dead. May be important text. Should be photographed for study.Period: Style suggests early Dynasty XVIII (?). Measurements: Height, c. 13.5 cm.
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
35595	man	Thot	ḏḥwtj	pre-Coptic 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 century B.C.E. or later (paleographical dating);

 

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previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	318121
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 318121 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.26), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.