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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.29 B-2

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.29 B-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Publication Status	unpublished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	47.218.29b2, lot 1: Largest Fragment: 3 1/8 × 1 in. (8 × 2.5 cm) 47.218.29b2, lot 2: Largest Fragment: 2 3/8 × 9/16 in. (6 × 1.5 cm) 47.218.29b2, lot 3: Largest Fragment: 3 15/16 × 1 3/8 in. (10 × 3.5 cm) 47.218.29b2: Numerous small fragments. They have been subdivided into 3 lots. 47.218.29b2, Lot 1: 30+ fragments. 47.218.29b2, Lot 2: 7 small fragments from different texts. 47.218.29b2, Lot 3: 35+ fragments from a number of different texts.
Mounting	(unknown)
Restoration Activities	Current Condition: Housed in a large archival box (17 x 22 cm.).
Comments on Object	47.218.29b2, Lot 1: A number of these fragments are layered or scrolled and need conservation before they can be properly studied.

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
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting	47.218.29b2, Lot 1: 30+ fragments. They come from a number of different texts, and some are opisthographic and may have demotic writing on the verso.

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Magical-medical texts (among others?)
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	47.218.29b2, Lot 1: 30+ fragments. They come from a number of different texts, and some are opisthographic and may have demotic writing on the verso. At least 1 fragment belongs to 47.218.87A 47.218.29b2, Lot 2: 7 small fragments from different texts. 47.218.29b2, Lot 3: 35+ fragments from a number of different texts; many of them are opisthographic.
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

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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	318127
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 318127 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.29 B-2), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.