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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Publication Status | unpublished |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 | |
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 | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 a liquid 2 something thick |
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Places (read out from edition) |
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; |
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. |