Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.65

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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Publication Status	unpublished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	(Unknown)
Text Types	scientific \| medicine
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);

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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).