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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.83

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.83
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Publication Status unpublished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: medium
Ancient Provenance Details No information. Received in plain 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 A number of fragments from a broken roll. At present the fragments are in three piles, with individual fragments nestled on top of one another. Numerous smaller fragments as well.
Mounting (unknown)
Comments on Object 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)

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink polychrome black and red
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) much of a broken roll is preserved, most of the fragments are still in place and not unrolled.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting Written with black ink and with several rubra among the text.

 

Text Content

Modern Title Papyrus fragments from one large roll with - so far - unknown content
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content Unclear content unless the papyrus is unrolled.
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 -332 BCE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

CUR.47.218.83_fragment
Reserved Copyright
CUR.47.218.83_R_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318180
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 318180 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.83), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.