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Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.102a-b |
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Publication Status | unpublished |
Ancient Provenance Site | unknown () [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
Ancient Provenance Details | Container marked “W” & “L”. 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 Type | papyrus |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | Group of 7 fragments |
Mounting | (unknown) |
Comments on Object | 47.218.102a: Largest Fragment: 13/16 × 1 3/8 in. (2 × 3.5 cm) a: 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) b: 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) |
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) | Inscribed in Late Period Hieratic, the relatively small size of the fragments still allows a reading of a few words | |
Script, Primary | Hieratic | |
Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
Comments on Handwriting | The size and fragmented state of the fragments preclude, at present, determining whether all or some of them belong to one text or which if any belong to another papyrus. | |
Comments on Text Layout | Two of the fragments show an inter-columnar break. |
Modern Title | papyrus fragments of unclear content, at least some from medical context |
Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown) |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. The relatively small size of the fragments still allows a reading of a few words that suggest that at least some of the fragments come from a medical or prophylactic text. |
Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 end of one column and beginning of a second one. |
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Places (read out from edition) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) | -664 BCE -525 BCE | Late Period, probably Saite Period (paleographical dating); |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 318191 |
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 318191 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.102a-b), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel. |