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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.58 A

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.58 A
Current Location New York, Brooklyn Museum
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Publication Status unpublished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: low
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) “Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour.”
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Fragments from a roll only
Mounting kept in paper folders

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto/verso
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (recto) and perpendicular (verso)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
Script, Primary Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Layout undetectable due to the fragmentary condition.

 

Text Content

Modern Title Business contract and inventory/ account
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
  • documentary | contract
Summary of Content Business contract and inventory/ account. According to B. Muhs, the phrase hrw 30 m-ḏı nꜣ ẖrd.w "30 days belonging to/with the children" occurs several times.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man Child
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late period - Early Ptolemaic dynasty -664 BCE -222 BCE ;

 

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Literature

 

DatasetID 318148
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel (Metadata); Jan Moje (Demotic)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 318148 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.58 A), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel (Metadata); Jan Moje (Demotic).