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| Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.79 |
| 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| Publication Status | unpublished |
| Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
| Ancient Provenance Details | ‘Elephantine, Feb. 1896’, marked on container. |
| 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 Type | papyrus |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | Numerous fragments—between 300-700 in number. Mass of small fragments, approximately 300-600 in number (database entry, Brooklyn Museum) |
| Mounting | (unknown) |
| Comments on Object | Largest Fragment: 1 3/16 × 1 3/16 in. (3 × 3 cm) 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 |
| 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) | broken off at all sides. It remains uncertain whether the fragments belong to one or more different texts and objects. Large mass of papyrus fragments, at least several hundred pieces. Inscribed in black Hieratic, recto and verso. Old Kingdom, 6th dynasty. Some unrelated fragments of later period. | |
| Script, Primary | Hieratic | |
| Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
| Comments on Handwriting | Written in Old Kingdom hieratic/cursive hieroglyphs. 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. Large clear hand. | |
| Modern Title | papyrus fragments of unclear content |
| Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
| Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
| Summary of Content | Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. |
| Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| 06th dynasty | -2350 BCE -2170 BCE | Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6 (paleographical dating) Summary of Sara Goler’s interpretation of results from micro-Raman spectroscopy: "The data fits nicely on the correlations as expected."; |
| Brookl_47.218.79_box_S |
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| Reserved Copyright |
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID | 318176 |
| 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 318176 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.79), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel. |
