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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.64

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.64
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Publication Status	unpublished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 “2LA”. Not known, 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	16 fragments. Small group of about twenty fragments of papyri. Probably too little is preserved to permit restoration. Condition: Fragments in good condition. Probably do not connect.
Mounting	(unknown)
Comments on Object	Largest Fragment: 1 × 2 3/16 in. (2.5 × 5.5 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) Measurements: max. ht., 6.7 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)	16 fragments, most of which are written in Late Period hieratic. 4 fragments appear to be uninscribed but show traces of ink in places at their broken edges. 2 fragments appear to be written demotic although only a sign or two can be read. The relatively small size of the fragments allows the reading of only a few signs, so establishing the subject matter of the papyrus from which these fragments come cannot be determined with any certainty at the moment.
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Script, additional A	Demotic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
Language, additional A	Demotic
Comments on Handwriting	Fragments mostly inscribed in Hieratic in at least two different hands. Clear hand. One fragment possibly Aramaic (?).

 

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	(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)

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
34830	man	Horus	Ḥr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

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 (paleographical dating);

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	318157
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 318157 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.64), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.