Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.29 a-2

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Publication Status	unpublished

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 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.

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.

Modern Title	medical-magical text
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
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)

Transcription

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Fragm_I_x+1
Fragm_I_x+2	p 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+12	²something hot rsj
horizontal stroke beneath the last line of text

¹ god's determinative
² something hot

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

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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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.