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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.57a-b

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Metadata

Collection

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Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

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

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.

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) 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.

 

Text Content

Modern Title papyrus fragments of unclear content, from obviously several texts
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • scientific | medicine
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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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47.218.57 B
Fragm_I_x+1
Fragm_I_x+2
Fragm_I_x+3k.t ms
Fragm_I_x+4 nhp bꜣḥ
Fragm_I_x+5
Fragm_II_x+1
Fragm_II_x+2 ẖ.wt m wn
Fragm_II_x+3[ḫf]tj.w=f dr
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47.218.57 B
Fragm_I_x+1
Fragm_I_x+2
Fragm_I_x+3 arm. Another: born
Fragm_I_x+4 protectng before
Fragm_I_x+5
Fragm_II_x+1
Fragm_II_x+2 bodies when open
Fragm_II_x+3 his [ene]mies are dispersed
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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 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.;

 

Pictures

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Literature

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.