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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.61 [Demotic]

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.61 [Demotic]
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Publication Status unpublished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 “LA 7”. Provenance not known.
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 47.218.61: 18 small fragments
Mounting (unknown)
Comments on Object Largest Fragment #1: 1 15/16 × 13/16 in. (5 × 2 cm) Largest Fragment #2: 2 3/8 × 9/16 in. (6 × 1.5 cm) 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)

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) 47.218.61: 12 inscribed in demotic and 6 in hieratic. 2 fragments are opisthographic. The small size of these fragments makes it impossible to identify at the present moment the texts to which these fragments belong.
Script, Primary Demotic
Language, Primary Demotic

 

Text Content

Modern Title papyrus fragments of unclear content, from obviously several texts
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Summary of Content Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

 

Pictures

CUR.47.218.61_R_001
Reserved Copyright
CUR.47.218.61_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318154
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Jan Moje (Demotic)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 318154 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.61 [Demotic]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic).