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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.116

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.116
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Publication Status unpublished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 Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: medium
Ancient Provenance Details Container marked ‘3M?’ Not known.
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [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 Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [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 17 fragments of papyrus. One fragment is comprised of layered pages.
Mounting (unknown)
Comments on Object Largest Fragment: 1 3/8 × 2 3/16 in. (3.5 × 5.5 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) The fragments are inscribed in Late Period hieratic.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian

 

Text Content

Modern Title Medical text concerning ailments of the back, buttocks, and anus. (Part of 47.218.75 + 86)
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • scientific | medicine
Summary of Content The sole content of the papyrus concerns ailments of the back, buttocks, and anus, as all fragments of 47.218.116 seem to belong to 47.218.75 + .86.
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, Saite Period ;

 

Pictures

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318207
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 318207 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.116), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.