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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.78a-b

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.78a-b
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Publication Status	unpublished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	“Elephantine, Feb. 1896” (in Wilbour’s hand).
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	Numerous fragments—between 100-200 in number. Large mass of papyrus fragments. All fragments are small. Apparently several documents are represented. Box 78b.1: Unfolded papyrus fragments, containing of several joined fragments
Mounting	(unknown)
Comments on Object	47.218.78: Largest Fragment: 2 3/8 in. (6 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) Dimensions: small in size, ca. 3 cm. x 3 cm. generally, although at least two fragments show an approximate height of c. 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)	written in Old Kingdom hieratic/cursive hieroglyphs.
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Old Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting	Although the writing shows a very high level of consistency, the remains of this lot are too fragmentary to easily determine whether they were written by one and the same scribe.
Comments on Text Layout	Verso: blank. Line x+1: possibly a sort of headline. From line x+2 onwards, the lines are splittedd in 2 columns, and possibly each line is reffering for the line in the column nextby. The lines of the first column are therefore labelled as "a" and the ones from the second column as "b".

 

Text Content

Modern Title	papyrus fragments of unclear content - legal document (78b.1)
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary | legal document
Summary of Content	Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. Box 87 b.1: "What remains of the text's outline seems to indicate that this document was not a letter. The mention of a witness points to a legal document." (M. V. Almansa-Villatoro)
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
06th dynasty				-2350 BCE -2170 BCE	Old Kingdom ;

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID	318172
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel; M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro (transcription & translation)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 318172 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.78a-b ), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel; M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro (transcription & translation).