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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.69 (+ 47.218.49)

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.69 (+ 47.218.49)
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Publication Status	unpublished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	unknown () [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details	Container marked “M” or “W”. Origin not known.
Ancient Provenance District	unknown () [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	unknown () [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	47.218.69a, lot 1: 3 fragments 47.218.69a, lot 2: Approximately 120 fragments
Mounting	(unknown)
Comments on Object	47.218.69a, lot 1: Largest Fragment #1: 1 3/16 × 13/16 in. (3 × 2 cm) 47.218.69a, lot 1: Largest Fragment #2: 1 9/16 × 13/16 in. (4 × 2 cm) 47.218.69a, lot 2: Largest Fragment: 1 3/16 × 2 3/8 in. (3 × 6 cm) 47.218.69a, lot 2: Largest Fragment: 3/8 × 1 3/16 in. (1 × 3 cm) a: 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) b: Medium Box of Fragments: 2 1/4 x 6 7/16 x 8 1/2 in. (5.7 x 16.4 x 21.6 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)	47.218.69a, lot 1: 3 fragments written in Late Period hieratic. Two fragments have three lines of text, one of which shows that the last extant line is the final line of the page from which it came. The third fragment has a single line of text that is the final line of the page from which the fragment came. We have yet to determine to which papyrus or papyri these fragments belong. 47.218.69a, lot 2: Approximately 120 fragments written in Late Period hieratic.
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting	47.218.69, lot 2: Approximately 70 of these fragments show the hand of the scribe of 47.218.49. Only 14 of these fragments, however, match the sign size and line spacing of that papyrus. The others have slightly larger writing and more ample line spacing. They may be from one or more original lost columns belonging to the beginning of that papyrus. The other group consists of assorted smaller fragments written in Late Period hieratic.

 

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	(Unknown)
Summary of Content	Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. Different texts. At least three fragments come from a medical text. One shows the writing of the word pr-aA “Pharaoh.”
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

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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;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	318162
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 318162 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.69 (+ 47.218.49)), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.