Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.39a-b

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Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.39a-b
Current Location	New York, Brooklyn Museum
Comments on Inventory	Bequest of 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Publication Status	unpublished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	Original paper container marked “W”. Not known but probably 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	Dimensions: 47.218.39a: 3 1/8 × 13/16 in. (8 × 2 cm) Mass of papyrus fragments, 47.218.39a: 1 fragment. Condition: All small fragments but in sound condition. 47.28.39b: Largest Fragment: 3/8 × 3/16 in. (1 × 0.5 cm) 47.218.39b: several dozen miniscule fragments. Several dozen miniscule fragments. The fragments are too small for any identification, most of the fragments are little more than fibrous remains. .
Mounting	(unknown)
Restoration Activities	Current Condition: housed in a small archival box (10 x 10 cm.).
Comments on Object	Mass of papyrus fragments. Seemingly all from one document.

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 inscribed on recto in red and black Hieratic. 47.218.39b: Several dozen miniscule fragments from one or more Late Period hieratic text(s). Fragment on the photograph: 8 lines of text preserved.
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian

Modern Title	papyrus fragments of unclear content; possibly medical
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Summary of Content	Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. 47.218.39a: 1 fragment inscribed in Late Period hieratic. Probably belongs to 47.218.75 + .86. Possibly medical? 47.218.39b: several dozen miniscule fragments from one or more Late Period hieratic text(s). The fragments are too small for any identification.
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Transcription

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¹ a liquid
² something thick

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RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty)				-664 BCE -525 BCE	Late Period, probably Saite Period;

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previousely unpublished

DatasetID	318134
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 318134 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.39a-b), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.