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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.84a-j

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.84a-j
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Publication Status	unpublished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	No marks on container. Not known, possibly Elephantine, despite its dedication to religious festivals observed in the Delta.
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	Notes before unrolling: "Broken papyrus roll. Inscribed in black and red Hieratic on recto only. Clear hand. Piled on top of roll are various small fragments mostly from the roll. Among these is one fragment of a vignette of heads of two men apparently carrying a pole on their shoulders. A few unrelated fragments. Probably a Book of the Dead. Roll can be opened." Condition: Fair. The great bulk of roll is intact but outer edges are in bad condition.
Mounting	(unknown)
Restoration Activities	Unrolled and mounted by Serge Sauneron in 1966.
Comments on Object	47.218.84: Overall: 6 1/2 × 171 5/8 in. (16.5 × 436 cm) 47.218.84a: Largest Fragment: 1 15/16 × 1 3/16 in. (5 × 3 cm) a: Glass: 10 1/8 x 17 13/16 in. (25.7 x 45.2 cm) a: Largest Fragment: 7 x 13 3/8 in. (17.8 x 33.9 cm) b: Glass: 10 1/16 x 25 9/16 in. (25.6 x 65 cm) b: Object: 6 9/16 x 20 7/16 in. (16.7 x 51.9 cm) c: 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) d: Glass: 10 1/8 x 25 5/8 in. (25.7 x 65.1 cm) d: Object: 6 11/16 x 21 15/16 in. (17 x 55.7 cm) e: Glass: 10 1/8 x 25 5/8 in. (25.7 x 65.1 cm) e: Object: 9 3/16 x 18 1/4 in. (23.4 x 46.3 cm) f: Glass: 9 13/16 x 25 9/16 in. (25 x 65 cm) f: Object: 6 11/16 x 21 5/8 in. (17 x 55 cm) g: Glass: 9 15/16 x 24 in. (25.3 x 61 cm) g: Object: 6 11/16 x 19 1/2 in. (17 x 49.5 cm) h: Glass: 10 1/16 x 25 9/16 in. (25.5 x 65 cm) h: Object: 6 3/8 x 21 9/16 in. (16.2 x 54.7 cm) i: Glass: 10 1/16 x 33 9/16 in. (25.5 x 85.2 cm) i: Object: 6 5/8 x 28 7/8 in. (16.8 x 73.3 cm) j: Glass: 7 3/16 x 9 1/16 in. (18.3 x 23 cm) j: Largest Fragment: 2 5/16 x 3 7/8 in. (5.8 x 9.8 cm) Measurements: Height, 17 cm. Dimensions: l. c. 436 cm. h. 16.5 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)	Seventeen columns of text; the first thirteen columns have 11 lines while columns 14-17 each have twelve lines of text. There are columns of text missing from the beginning and the final extant column of text is damaged at its left edge.
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Delta Mythological Papyrus. The text is dedicated to religious festivals observed in the Delta
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Summary of Content	The extant text is dedicated to religious festivals celebrated in Lower Egypt, for the most part in the Delta. The sites enumerated are Heliopolis, Letopolis, Bubastis, Mendes, Hermopolis of the Delta, Sebennytos, Behbeit, the nome of the West, the nome of the Hsb-Bull, Sile, Imet, and Pi-Sopdu. Mythological allusions abound as do geographical references, both those known and those poorly understood to date.
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
26th dynasty				-664 BCE -525 BCE	Late Period, Dynasty 26 (palaeographical dating), reign of Psamtik I [Period: Libyan Period, ca. Dyn. XXII - database entry of the Brooklyn Museum];

 

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Literature

• Corteggiani, Jean-Pierre, Une Stèle Hélipolitaine d'Époque Saîte (1979). (136)
• Goyon, Jean-Claude, Les Cultes d'Abydos a la basse époque d'apres une stele du Musee de Lyon (1968). (41 no. 6)
• Meeks, Dimitri, Myths et Legendes du Delta d'apres le papyrus Brooklyn 47.218.84 (2006). ()
• Pantalacci, Laure, A propos de reliques osiriennes (1987). (110, note 3)
• Sauneron, Serge, Un traité égyptien d'ophiologie : Papyrus du Brooklyn Museum Nr. 47.218.48 et .85 (1989). ()
• Sauneron, Serge, Villes et Legendes (1983). (159)

 

DatasetID	318181
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 318181 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.84a-j), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.