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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.86A

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.86A
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Publication Status unpublished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 Received in plain 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
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) 47.218.86a: 2 fragments with traces of signs written in Aramaic
Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting The writing on one of the fragments is smudged to the point of illegibility. Little can be read with certainty.

 

Text Content

Modern Title papyrus fragments of unclear content
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

 

Pictures

CUR.47.218.86a-1_R_001
Reserved Copyright
CUR.47.218.86a-2_R_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318185
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Verena Lepper, Daniela C. Härtel (Metadata); James Moore (Aramaic)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 318185 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.86A), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper, Daniela C. Härtel (Metadata); James Moore (Aramaic).