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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.84A

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.84A
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Publication Status unpublished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
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 47.218.84a: 3 fragments written in demotic.
Mounting (unknown)

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) One fragments has signs from 4 lines of text and is opisthographic. Only a few signs and perhaps a word or two can be read with certainty.
Script, Primary Demotic
Language, Primary Demotic

 

Text Content

Modern Title papyrus fragments from accounts
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content Fragments from accounts. Content unclear due to 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
Ptolemaic dynasty -332 BCE -30 BCE ;

 

Pictures

CUR.47.218.84a_R_001
Reserved Copyright
CUR.47.218.84a_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318182
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Jan Moje (Demotic)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 318182 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.84A), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic).