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Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.125a |
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Publication Status | unpublished |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 unmarked. 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 | 47.218.125: A group of hundreds of fragments of papyri. |
Mounting | (unknown) |
Comments on Object | 47.218.125: Largest Fragment: 2 3/8 × 13/16 in. (6 × 2 cm) a: 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 random sampling of 19 fragments shows that they are inscribed in Late Period Hieratic or Demotic. It remains unclear in what ratios the scripts are represented. | |
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 - Ptolemaic dynasty | -664 BCE -30 BCE | Late Period to Ptolemaic Period ; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 318220 |
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 318220 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.125a), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel. |