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Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.118b |
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Publication Status | unpublished |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 ‘3T sm’. 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 | 47.218.118b: Group of 100+ small fragments. |
Mounting | (unknown) |
Comments on Object | 47.218.118b: Largest Fragment: 13/16 × 1 3/8 in. (2 × 3.5 cm) b: Medium Box of Fragments: 2 1/4 x 6 7/16 x 8 1/2 in. (5.7 x 16.4 x 21.6 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) | 47.218.118b: Group of 100+ small fragments, some of which are inscribed and some of which are blank. A random sampling of 29 fragments shows that the inscribed material is all written in Late Period Hieratic. | |
Script, Primary | Hieratic | |
Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
Comments on Handwriting | Their size and fragmented state makes it impossible to determine if they all or even some of them belonged to one or even if any of the fragments belong to another papyrus. |
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. The relatively small size of the fragments precludes a reading of more than a few signs and perhaps a word here and there. |
Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
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 | 318210 |
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 318210 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.118b), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel. |