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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.102a-b

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Metadata

Collection

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Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

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

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)

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) 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.

 

Text Content

Modern Title papyrus fragments of unclear content, at least some from medical context
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Text Types
  • scientific | medicine
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)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
Fragm_I_x+1 rꜣ hb
Fragm_I_x+2m=k ẖr
Fragm_I_x+3.w stj
Fragm_I_x+4
Fragm_II_x+1
Fragm_II_x+2w=f mj
Fragm_II_x+3 n.t ḥr
Fragm_III_x+1
Fragm_III_x+2 ḏdd
Fragm_III_x+3 m njw.t
Fragm_IV_x+1
Fragm_IV_x+2[h]rw
Fragm_IV_x+3m
Fragm_IV_x+4
Fragm_V1end of one column and beginning of a second one.
Fragm_VI_x+1[s]bꜣ
Fragm_VI_x+2
Fragm_VII_x+1
Fragm_VII_x+2

1 end of one column and beginning of a second one.
R
Fragm_I_x+1 spell of(?) entering(?)
Fragm_I_x+2 you under
Fragm_I_x+3(pl.) shoot
Fragm_I_x+4
Fragm_II_x+1
Fragm_II_x+2 his like
Fragm_II_x+3 on
Fragm_III_x+1
Fragm_III_x+2
Fragm_III_x+3 in the city
Fragm_IV_x+1
Fragm_IV_x+2 day
Fragm_IV_x+3 in
Fragm_IV_x+4
Fragm_V
Fragm_VI_x+1star(?)/teaching(?)
Fragm_VI_x+2
Fragm_VII_x+1
Fragm_VII_x+2
CUR.47.218.102a_view1_
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Dates

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);

 

Pictures

CUR.47.218.102a_view1_
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Literature

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.