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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.29 C-1

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.29 C-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Publication Status	unpublished

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	47.218.29c1: Largest Fragment: 3 9/16 × 1 3/16 in. (9 × 3 cm) 47.218.29c1: 104 fragments; most appear to come from the same text, although there are several fragments, at least, that clearly do not.
Mounting	(unknown)
Restoration Activities	Current Condition: Housed in a large archival box (17 x 22 cm.).

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
State of Preservation (Text)	47.218.29c1: 104 fragments; most appear to come from the same text, although there are several fragments, at least, that clearly do not.
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting	inscribed in Late Period hieratic

 

Text Content

Modern Title	medical-magical text
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Summary of Content	47.218.29c1: The largest group of fragments appears to belong to a prophylactic text. Many of these fragments are opisthographic. The Demotic fragments are unreadable due to the fragmentary condition
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
35090	man	Ra	Rꜥ	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 -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	318128
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel; Jan Moje (Demotic)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 318128 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.29 C-1), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel; Jan Moje (Demotic).