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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.129b

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.129b
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Publication Status unpublished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 ‘Black-1’ Uncertain but possibly Elephantine.
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 47.218.129b: A group of 80+ papyrus fragments, quite a number are very small, less than 1 cm. x 1 cm.
Mounting (unknown)
Comments on Object 47.218.129b: Largest Fragment: 1 9/16 × 13/16 in. (4 × 2 cm) b: 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) Measurements: Max. length, 4.4 cm. Dimensions: The largest fragments are in the range of 4 cm. x 2 cm. each.

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) 20+ fragments are opisthographic. Many of them appear to belong to the same text.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting Written in black Late Period Hieratic.

 

Text Content

Modern Title papyrus fragments of unclear content, at least some from medical context
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • scientific | medicine
Summary of Content Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. 20+ fragments are opisthographic. Quite a number of fragments are very small, less than 1 cm. x 1 cm. On none of them is there enough extant writing for a meaningful identification of genre.
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 (paleographical dating);

 

Pictures

Brookl_47.218.129b_R_0
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Brookl_47.218.129b_V_0
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318229
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 318229 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.129b), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.