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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.67

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.67
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Publication Status unpublished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 “2 Sm. Bl.” 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 87+ fragments. Condition: All small pieces. Restoration improbable. The fragments clearly come from a number of different papyri.
Mounting (unknown)
Comments on Object Largest Fragment: 1 3/4 × 1 3/16 in. (4.5 × 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: apparently all small pieces. Dimensions: The largest fragment is c. 4.5 x 3 cm.; the rest are mostly half that size or smaller. Many of these fragments are no larger than 2 x 1 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) 87+ fragments most of which are written in Late Period hieratic. Two fragments are written demotic and one fragment has hieratic writing on its upper portion and demotic on its lower portion. Fragments inscribed in red and black Hieratic.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting Mostly in a small cramped hand.

 

Text Content

Modern Title papyrus fragments of unclear content, obviously of several texts
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. The fragments clearly come from a number of different papyri.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (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;

 

Pictures

CUR.47.218.67_group1_v
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CUR.47.218.67_group2_v
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CUR.47.218.67_box1_vie
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CUR.47.218.67_box1_vie
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318160
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 318160 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.67), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.