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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.119

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.119
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Publication Status	unpublished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: high
Ancient Provenance Details	Container marked ‘3T’ followed by illegible word. 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	There seem to be fragments from two different texts in this group. One is an extensive broken roll.
Mounting	(unknown)
Comments on Object	Max Size: 4 15/16 in. (12.5 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)	Fragments from an extensive broken roll. All fragments belonging to this roll are subsumed here.
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian

 

Text Content

Modern Title	papyrus fragments of unclear content from one broken roll, register- accounting papyrus
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Summary of Content	Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. "a fiscal survey of the various plots of cultivated land in a continuous portion of Middle Egypt, from near modern Minia to a point some eighty miles north, made in about a month during summer in the fourth reegnal year of Ramesses V (c. 1156 BC). This register gives in meticulous detail particulars of the different institutions that owned the various tracts of land, the names of the farmers, the estimated yields and their assessments for taxation." (C.Aldred, Tutankhamun's Egypt (1972), 51, fig. 38).
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
38170	man	Anoubis[///]	Ỉnpw-[///]	pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty)				-664 BCE -332 BCE	Late Period (paleographical dating);

 

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Literature

• Aldred, Cyril, Tutankhamun's Egypt (1972). (51 fig. 38)

 

DatasetID	318211
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 318211 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.119), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.