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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.104a-c

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.104a-c
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Publication Status unpublished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 “Bl.7”. 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 47.218.104a: Group of 3 fragments 47.218.104b: A group containing 40+ uninscribed papyrus fragments. 47.218.104c: A group of 23 fragments
Mounting (unknown)
Comments on Object 47.218.104a: Largest Fragment: 1 9/16 × 2 3/8 in. (4 × 6 cm) 47.218.104b: Largest Fragment: 13/16 × 2 3/8 in. (2 × 6 cm) 47.218.104c: Largest Fragment #1: 1 3/8 × 1 9/16 in. (3.5 × 4 cm) 47.218.104c: Largest Fragment #2: 13/16 × 2 9/16 in. (2 × 6.5 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) c: 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) 47.218.104a: Group of 3 fragments all of which are inscribed in Late Period hieratic. The relatively small size of the fragments still allows a reading of a few words. 47.218.104b: A group containing 40+ uninscribed papyrus fragments. 47.218.104c: A group of 23 fragments all of which are 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 Text Layout 47.218.104a: Two of the fragments show an inter-columnar break.
Existing Pictorial Elements 47.218.104b: Two fragments show a single ruled black line, possibly margin marker of the upper or lower page of a papyrus sheet.

 

Text Content

Modern Title papyrus fragments of unclear content, obviously of several texts, at least a few come from a medical text
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • scientific | medicine
Summary of Content Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. 47.218.104a: 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. 47.218.104c: The relatively small size of the fragments still allows a reading of a few words, none of which offer insight into the nature of the text(s) to which these fragments belong.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
Fragm_I_x+1
Fragm_I_x+2 nb(.t)
Fragm_I_x+3 rḏ.n
Fragm_I_x+4.n jry=fy
Fragm_I_x+5 .n ḏd.n=f
Fragm_I_x+6
Fragm_II_x+1 wn=j(?) m
Fragm_II_x+2 r(?) gr(?) ḥꜣ.t m sr.t
Fragm_II_x+3=k r wn
Fragm_II_x+4 wn wꜥ
Fragm_III_x+1 rꜣ(?) s
Fragm_III_x+2 ms
Fragm_III_x+3 nb.t sḫm
Fragm_III_x+4.w
104c_Fragm_I_x+1
104c_Fragm_I_x+2b jw=s mꜣꜣ
104c_Fragm_I_x+3 pw jr(?).n=f r
104c_Fragm_I_x+4.w nb nfr
104c_Fragm_I_x+5 ꜥry.t
104c_Fragm_I_x+6
104c_Fragm_I_x+7
104c_Fragm_II_x+1
104c_Fragm_II_x+2 tp tp
104c_Fragm_II_x+3 n ḫtm
104c_Fragm_II_x+4ꜣy pw jr.n=f
104c_Fragm_II_x+5 bw ntj
104c_Fragm_II_x+6 ḏd.jn
R
Fragm_I_x+1
Fragm_I_x+2 every
Fragm_I_x+3 gave
Fragm_I_x+4 he made
Fragm_I_x+5 he said
Fragm_I_x+6
Fragm_II_x+1 I(?) was (as)
Fragm_II_x+2 also(?) the front part as a spike-shaped
Fragm_II_x+3 you to be
Fragm_II_x+4 being the first
Fragm_III_x+1 spell(?) of
Fragm_III_x+2 born
Fragm_III_x+3 every might
Fragm_III_x+4 (pl.)
104c_Fragm_I_x+1
104c_Fragm_I_x+2 she see
104c_Fragm_I_x+3 is it what(?) he did(?) to
104c_Fragm_I_x+4 every beautiful .w
104c_Fragm_I_x+5 gate
104c_Fragm_I_x+6
104c_Fragm_I_x+7
104c_Fragm_II_x+1
104c_Fragm_II_x+2 first/head first/head
104c_Fragm_II_x+3 of seal
104c_Fragm_II_x+4 is it what he did
104c_Fragm_II_x+5 the place where
104c_Fragm_II_x+6 And then said
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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);

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318193
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 318193 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.104a-c), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.