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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.109

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.109
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Publication Status unpublished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 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 approximately 100+ fragments. The fragments are extremely small and friable and must be handled with care.
Mounting (unknown)
Comments on Object Largest Fragment: 13/16 × 1 3/16 in. (2 × 3 cm) 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) Group of approximately 100+ fragments, some of which show Late Period Hieratic, red and black, while some of them are blank.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout Group of approximately 100+ fragments, some of which show Late Period Hieratic, red and black, while some of them are blank.

 

Text Content

Modern Title papyrus fragments of unclear content
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. Although a few words can be read on the larger fragments, there is not enough to help establish 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)

 

 

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

Brookl_47.218.109_frag
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318199
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 318199 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.109), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.