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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.39a-b

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Metadata

Collection

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Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

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

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.

Text Basic Information

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

 

Text Content

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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
x+1 k.t
x+2 1a liquid ky-rꜥ ḥ(n)q.t
x+3 2something thick ḥr sḫ
x+4 nn pr.t
x+5 sp-snw jw nꜣ.w
x+6 ẖn.t(?) spr.w
x+7 spr.w
x+8

1 a liquid
2 something thick
R
x+1 other:
x+2 -liquid. Another spell: Beer
x+3(something thick) with
x+4 not does (it) come out
x+5 two times. And the (pl.)
x+6 ribs(?)
x+7 ribs(?)
x+8
CUR.47.218.39a_view1_R
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CUR.47.218.39b_view1_R
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CUR.47.218.39b_view2_R
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Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

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;

 

Pictures

CUR.47.218.39a_view1_R
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CUR.47.218.39b_view1_R
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CUR.47.218.39b_view2_R
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Literature

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.