Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.29 B-1

Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.29 B-1
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Publication Status	unpublished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	47.218.29b1: Largest Fragment: 4 3/4 × 1 3/16 in. (12 × 3 cm) 47.218.29b1: 8 fragments. A number of the fragments belong together but are from 2 different texts. 47.218.29, lot 1: Largest Fragment: 3 1/8 × 1 in. (8 × 2.5 cm) 47.218.29, lot 2: Largest Fragment: 2 3/8 × 9/16 in. (6 × 1.5 cm) 47.218.29, lot 3: Largest Fragment: 3 15/16 × 1 3/8 in. (10 × 3.5 cm)
Mounting	(unknown)
Restoration Activities	Current Condition: Housed in a large archival box (17 x 22 cm.)

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)	fragmentary
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting	inscribed in Late Period hieratic

Modern Title	papyrus fragments of unclear content, two different texts
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Summary of Content	Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. A number of the fragments belong together but are from 2 different texts.
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

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Fragm_I_x+1
Fragm_I_x+2	n=f jmn
Fragm_I_x+3	¹god's determinative.w ḥr s.t=s[n]
Fragm_I_x+4	wn-nfrw(?) Nnj-[nsw?]
Fragm_I_x+5	wr.w
Fragm_I_x+6	prj m ꜣḫ.tj
Fragm_I_x+7	jmj.w
Fragm_I_x+8	n=f ꜣḫ=f(?)
Fragm_I_x+9	m jb.w
Fragm_I_x+10	jt²god's determinative=f prj
Fragm_I_x+11	³god's determinative Pr-ꜥꜣ⁴god's determinative ꜥnḫ-wḏꜣ-snb nb(.t)
Fragm_I_x+12	ḥnmmt nb
Fragm_II_x+1
Fragm_II_x+2	fy
Fragm_II_x+3	.w
Fragm_II_x+4	sfṯ.w jry
Fragm_II_x+5	r hꜣj=s
Fragm_II_x+6	=s(?) r m m-ꜥ
Fragm_II_x+7	r hꜣj
Fragm_II_x+8	⁵god's determinative
Fragm_II_x+9	ẖn(?)
Fragm_III_x+1
Fragm_III_x+2	qs(?) sfṯ
Fragm_III_x+3	r njw.t jry=s
Fragm_III_x+4	jr hꜣj
Fragm_III_x+5	[=s?]n ꜣq
Fragm_III_x+6	ḫpr gs
Fragm_III_x+7	⁶god's determinative
Fragm_IV_x+1
Fragm_IV_x+2	qꜣj
Fragm_IV_x+3	nṯr.w j(ꜣ)d=f
Fragm_IV_x+4	sfṯ nn jry
Fragm_IV_x+5	ms s
Fragm_IV_x+6	jry=sn n=f
Fragm_IV_x+7	n=f m p.t nṯr nb
Fragm_IV_x+8	grg r
Fragm_IV_x+9	=sn
Fragm_V_x+1
Fragm_V_x+2	bꜣḥ
Fragm_V_x+3	jr mꜣꜣ=s
Fragm_V_x+4	.w n mꜣꜥ.t n=f m ḥꜣ.t
Fragm_V_x+5	n[=f?] ẖ.t=ṯn
Fragm_VI_x+1
Fragm_VI_x+2	jm jr
Fragm_VI_x+3	nb(.t) ḥr
Fragm_VI_x+4	.w nb(.t)
Fragm_VI_x+5	nn wn
Fragm_VII_x+1	mꜣꜣ=f nfr
Fragm_VII_x+2
Fragm_VII_x+3	n Sḫm.t
Fragm_VII_x+4	dr(?)
Fragm_VII_x+5
Fragm_VII_x+6
Fragm_VII_x+7

¹ god's determinative
² god's determinative
³ god's determinative
⁴ god's determinative
⁵ god's determinative
⁶ god's determinative

Fragm_I_x+1
Fragm_I_x+2	he did/for him hidden
Fragm_I_x+3	(pl. / gods) on the[ir] seats
Fragm_I_x+4
Fragm_I_x+5	the great ones (both great one?)
Fragm_I_x+6	going out into the horizon
Fragm_I_x+7	the ones who are in
Fragm_I_x+8	for him, he(?) is useful
Fragm_I_x+9	in
Fragm_I_x+10	his father coming out
Fragm_I_x+11	¹god's determinative and Pharao²god's determinative, life, well-being and health, lord of
Fragm_I_x+12	sun-people, lord of /every
Fragm_II_x+1
Fragm_II_x+2
Fragm_II_x+3
Fragm_II_x+4	Sefet-desease, done/doing
Fragm_II_x+5	in order that she descends
Fragm_II_x+6	she(?) by
Fragm_II_x+7	in order to descend
Fragm_II_x+8	³god's determinative
Fragm_II_x+9
Fragm_III_x+1
Fragm_III_x+2	bone(?) Sefet-desease
Fragm_III_x+3	to the city. She does
Fragm_III_x+4	what the descending is concerned
Fragm_III_x+5	the[y?] perish
Fragm_III_x+6	the side is becoming
Fragm_III_x+7	⁴god's determinative
Fragm_IV_x+1
Fragm_IV_x+2	being uplifted
Fragm_IV_x+3	the gods. He suffers
Fragm_IV_x+4	Sefet-desease. is not made
Fragm_IV_x+5	born
Fragm_IV_x+6	they made for him
Fragm_IV_x+7	for him/ he did in heaven, every god
Fragm_IV_x+8	grounded to
Fragm_IV_x+9	they
Fragm_V_x+1
Fragm_V_x+2	front of
Fragm_V_x+3	what is concerned that she sees
Fragm_V_x+4	(pl.) in truth for him in the forepart
Fragm_V_x+5	for [him?] your bodies
Fragm_VI_x+1
Fragm_VI_x+2	there when
Fragm_VI_x+3	every with/at
Fragm_VI_x+4	all (pl.)
Fragm_VI_x+5	there is no
Fragm_VII_x+1	he sees the good
Fragm_VII_x+2
Fragm_VII_x+3	of Sakhmet
Fragm_VII_x+4
Fragm_VII_x+5
Fragm_VII_x+6
Fragm_VII_x+7

¹ god's determinative
² god's determinative
³ god's determinative
⁴ god's determinative

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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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DatasetID	318126
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 318126 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.29 B-1), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.