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Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.65 |
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Publication Status | unpublished |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 “2 Med.Blk.”. 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 Type | papyrus |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | 22 fragments. Condition: Very fragmentary. Restoration probably impossible. |
Mounting | (unknown) |
Comments on Object | Largest Fragment #1: 1 3/16 × 13/16 in. (3 × 2 cm) Largest Fragment #2: 1 3/8 × 1 3/16 in. (3.5 × 3 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: Average about 3.7 cm. |
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) | 22 fragments written in Late Period hieratic. 2 fragments with just traces of writing may be written in demotic. 4 fragments are opisthographic. 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. 2 fragments with just traces of writing may be written in demotic. 4 fragments are opisthographic. | |
Script, Primary | Hieratic | |
Script, additional A | Early Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
Language, additional A | Early Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | Small group of small fragments of papyri inscribed in Hieratic, red and black. Very little of text is preserved. |
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 |
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Summary of Content | Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. "2 med. Book" as a note, found in an envelope, cited in the database of the Brooklyn Museum). The Demotic fragment is unreadable due to the fragmentary condition. |
Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
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); |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 318158 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Author | Verena Lepper, Daniela C. Härtel (Hieratic); Jan Moje (Demotic) |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 318158 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.65), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper, Daniela C. Härtel (Hieratic); Jan Moje (Demotic). |