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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.98

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.98
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Publication Status unpublished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 unknown () [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details Received in unmarked paper. Origin not known.
Ancient Provenance District unknown () [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 unknown () [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 The fragments are currently in three nesting piles, the remains of a broken roll.
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), Max Size: 5 7/8 in. (15 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) Inscribed in red and black Hieratic on recto only.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting Small clear hand.

 

Text Content

Modern Title Medical text
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • scientific | medicine
Summary of Content Medical text.
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 -525 BCE palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

CUR.47.218.98_group1_v
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318187
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 318187 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.98), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.