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Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.57a-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Publication Status | unpublished |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 | Container marked “4 M?”. 47.218.57a: Not known. 47.218.57b: Not known, but quite 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 Type | papyrus |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | 47.218.57a: 1 fragment 47.218.57b: 81 fragments Condition: Bad. Fragments small and probably are not from connecting sections. 1 fragment is inscribed in demotic. The other fragments come from a number of different texts that have yet to be determined. |
Mounting | (unknown) |
Comments on Object | 47.218.57a: 2 3/8 × 3/8 in. (6 × 1 cm) 47.218.57b: Largest Fragment: 4 3/4 × 1 9/16 in. (12 × 4 cm) a: Small Box of Fragments: 1 3/4 x 4 1/16 x 4 1/16 in. (4.5 x 10.3 x 10.3 cm) b: Small Box of Fragments: 1 3/4 x 4 1/16 x 4 1/16 in. (4.5 x 10.3 x 10.3 cm) Measurements: Largest fragments, c. 13.3 cm. long. Dimensions: the largest fragments belonging to 47.218.49 are c. 12 x 4 cm. The largest fragments in the remaining group are c. 8 x 3 cm. |
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) | Mass of papyrus fragments inscribed on recto only. Numerous large fragments but the mass appears to be small portion of a roll. 47.218.57a: 1 fragment inscribed in Late Period hieratic comprising seven lines of text. The small size of the fragment makes reading of anything but a few signs impossible. 47.218.57b: 81 fragments written in Late Period hieratic. | |
Script, Primary | Hieratic | |
Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
Comments on Handwriting | 47.218.57b: 81 fragments. One group of c. 21 fragments belongs to 47.218.49 or to a second text prepared by the scribe of that papyrus. 2 fragments belong to 47.218.75 + .86. 1 fragment is inscribed in demotic. The other fragments come from a number of different texts that have yet to be determined. Small hand. |
Modern Title | papyrus fragments of unclear content, from obviously several texts |
Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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Summary of Content | Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. Small fragments inscribed in hieratic, some of which are opisthographic; probably from a medical text. |
Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
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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 10/7/2016: For your review, here is a summary of Sara Goler’s interpretation of results from micro-Raman spectroscopy. 47.218.57b: The fragment from the late Saite Period. This document does not fit on the correlation too well if it is dated from around 664BCE to 630 BCE (I think). I would venture to guess that it is not as oxidized since it fits nicely into correlations at a later date (around 500CE). I was wondering about the provenance of this document and if it was found in a jar or any other information about it. Another possibility is that is another form of carbon ink such as charcoal but I would guess it has just not oxidized as much since if you shift the points over, they do really fit into the correlations.; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 318147 |
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 318147 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.57a-b), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel. |