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Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.120 |
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Publication Status | unpublished |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 | Unknown. No marks on container. 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 | A box containing hundreds of small fragments. Many of the fragments are folded over and are actually larger than they appear. Many of them are in need of conservation in order to restore them to their correct size. |
Mounting | (unknown) |
Comments on Object | Largest Fragment #1: 3 1/8 × 9/16 in. (8 × 1.5 cm) Largest Fragment #2: 2 3/8 × 1 3/16 in. (6 × 3 cm) 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) | A box containing hundreds of small fragments inscribed in Late Period Hieratic. A number of different texts are represented. The size of the fragments impedes identifying the nature of the texts from which they come. | |
Script, Primary | Hieratic | |
Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian |
Modern Title | papyrus fragments of unclear content, obviously of several texts |
Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Summary of Content | Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. |
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 | 318213 |
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 318213 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.120), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel. |