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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.81

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.81
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Publication Status unpublished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’ 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

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Numerous fragments—between 100-200 in number. Description: mass of small fragments, approximately 300‑600 in number. (database entry of the Brooklyn Museum). Condition: Poor. Fragments mostly very small.
Mounting (unknown)
Comments on Object Largest Fragment: 1 3/16 × 1 3/16 in. (3 × 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) Dimensions: small in size, ca. 3 cm. x 3 cm. generally.

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) 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.

 

Text Content

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)

 

 

Dates

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);

 

Pictures

CUR.47.218.81_R_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318178
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 318178 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.81), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.