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| Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.80 |
| 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| Publication Status | unpublished |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” (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 Type | papyrus |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | Numerous fragments—between 300-700 in number. Description: mass of small fragments, approximately 300-600 in number. (database entry Brooklyn Museum). |
| Mounting | (unknown) |
| Restoration Activities | Condition: Bad. Many fragments very small. Received in badly crumpled tissue paper packet. |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 (palaeographical dating); |
| Brookl_47.218.80_box_S |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| Brookl_47.218.80_Box_v |
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| Reserved Copyright |
previousely unpublished
| DatasetID | 318177 |
| 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 318177 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.80), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel. |
