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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.71

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.71
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Publication Status unpublished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 “V”. Origin not known.
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 50+ fragments
Mounting (unknown)
Comments on Object Largest Fragment: 3 15/16 × 1 3/16 in. (10 × 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)

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) 50+ fragments, broken on all sides
Script, Primary Cursive Hieroglyphs
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting Several fragments have hieroglyphic text written in a very practiced and careful hand.
Comments on Text Layout many of the fragments are bare
Existing Pictorial Elements Several fragments show the traces of what appears to be a painted shrine.

 

Text Content

Modern Title papyrus fragments of unclear content, written in cursive hieroglyphs and containing measurements and traces of a painted shrine.
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content The text fragments preserve only a few words that clearly give measurements. Several fragments show the traces of what appears to be a painted shrine.
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
New Kingdom - Late Period -1539 BCE -332 BCE New Kingdom or Later Period;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318164
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 318164 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.71), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.