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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.75A

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.75A
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Publication Status unpublished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 ‘W’. Not known, quite 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 50+ fragments. Some of the fragments appear to belong to the same papyrus.
Mounting (unknown)
Comments on Object 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) 47.218.75a: Largest Fragment #1: 1 × 1 9/16 in. (2.5 × 4 cm) 47.218.75a: Largest Fragment #2: 1 3/8 × 1 3/16 in. (3.5 × 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 written in Late Period Hieratic, although 1 fragment may be inscribed in Demotic.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Script, additional A Demotic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Language, additional A Demotic
Comments on Handwriting The relatively small size of the fragments still allows the reading of a few words

 

Text Content

Modern Title Papyrus fragments of unclear content, some with a medical subject
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • scientific | medicine
Summary of Content Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition; the subject matter of at least some of these fragments is medical or prophylactic.
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.47.218.75a_sample_
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CUR.47.218.75a_view1_R
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318169
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel; Jan Moje (Demotic)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 318169 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.75A), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel; Jan Moje (Demotic).