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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.29 a-2

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.29 a-2
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Publication Status unpublished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.
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 47.218.29a2: Largest Fragment: 4 3/4 × 1 9/16 in. (12 × 4 cm) 47.218.29a2: 12 large fragments, 7 slightly smaller fragments, and several small fragments, all belonging to the lower half of a Late Period prophylactic (magical) text. The distance between fragments is still to be determined. Dimensions: W. 4 cm.; H. 12 cm. (largest).
Mounting (unknown)
Comments on Object Obviously, a rolled papyrus has been broken in rolled condition, which caused the fragments being very identical in shape and width/length.

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
State of Preservation (Text) Fragments of more than 10 lines of text are preserved on each papyrus fragment. Badly broken papyrus roll inscribed in Hieratic.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting Very clear late hieratic which can be read easily, combined with the very neat surface of the papyrus
Comments on Text Layout Recipes and instructions all written as rubrics. Red ink is a dark, almost burgundy color. Above the preserved columns of text, a horizontal stroke is preserved which goes on for the whole length of the text.

 

Text Content

Modern Title medical-magical text
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian | magical
  • scientific | medicine
Summary of Content The lower half of a Late Period magical text. The text is a prophylactic text intended to aid a patient suffering from a disorder or disease. The group writings in this word suggest that it is a foreign loan-word.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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Fragm_I_x+1
Fragm_I_x+2p n=f šfy.t nṯr
Fragm_I_x+3 ꜥḥꜣ
Fragm_I_x+4 r ḫꜥj=f rḏ.ḫr=k jrj
Fragm_I_x+5 qs gr fꜣy n
Fragm_I_x+6 wꜥj fꜣj=f m šr1god's determinative
Fragm_I_x+7 ptr(?)=f m šs
Fragm_I_x+8 bꜣ.w n nṯr nn wr
Fragm_I_x+9 rhy.t(?) Ḥr mk
Fragm_I_x+10 rn=s pf.t n nsr.t
Fragm_I_x+11 m t nn
Fragm_I_x+122something hot rsj
horizontal stroke beneath the last line of text

1 god's determinative
2 something hot
R
Fragm_I_x+1
Fragm_I_x+2 for him, dignity of a god
Fragm_I_x+3 fighting
Fragm_I_x+4 in order that he emerges. You must cause to make(?)
Fragm_I_x+5 bone but the portable shrine of
Fragm_I_x+6 emerging, he carries
Fragm_I_x+7 he looks(?)
Fragm_I_x+8 the Bau of the god. There is no great
Fragm_I_x+9 Rekhyt(?). Horus. Look,
Fragm_I_x+10 yonder her name of "Flame"
Fragm_I_x+11 in/as bread. These(?)
Fragm_I_x+12
horizontal stroke beneath the last line of text
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
34830 man Horus Ḥr pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late period - Roman period -664 BCE -525 BCE ca. 664-525 B.C.E. or later, Late Period, probably Saite Period (paleographical dating);

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318125
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 318125 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.29 a-2), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.