Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.133

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.133
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Publication Status	unpublished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 ‘6W’ or ‘6M.’ Not known, 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	Two broken rolls (roll A and roll B). Roll A: There are two parts of the broken roll preserved, one from the upper part of a papyrus, the other from the lower part of a papyrus. In addition, there are approximately 175 fragments that were found with these two pieces.
Mounting	(unknown)
Comments on Object	Largest Fragment #1: 1 3/16 × 1 3/16 in. (3 × 3 cm) Largest Fragment #2: 1 9/16 × 1 3/16 in. (4 × 3 cm) Upper Roll Fragment: 3 1/8 in. (8 cm) Lower Roll Fragment: 3 9/16 in. (9 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) Measurements: Max. length, 12 cm. Dimensions: The upper roll fragment is c. 8 cm. h.; the lower roll fragment is c. 9 cm. h. The largest fragments are c. 3 x 3 cm. and c. 4 x 3 cm.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink polychrome black and red
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Two different rolls (A and B) The two broken rolls (of roll A?) do not seem to belong to one and the same text but that can only best be determined when the they are further investigated.
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting	On the rolls there are two different hands represented; the fragments show numerous hands, a number familiar from other papyri. Small clear hand.
Comments on Text Layout	Group of papyrus fragments inscribed in red and black Hieratic on recto only.

Text Content

Modern Title	Papyrus fragments of two different rolls (only partly unrolled) with medical-magical or ritual content, in all probability
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	religious \| polytheistic Egyptian \| magical scientific \| medicine
Summary of Content	The rolls and the fragments that belong to them are magical in nature and appear to focus on the protection of women. Several gods are mentioned, among them Atum, Thoth, Horus and Tefnut, and there seems to be fragmentary story in which gods are acting and speaking.
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

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Col. x+2, line 1	... m ꜣḫ.tj n.t p.t(?) m jw=tw r mꜣꜣ Ḥr gm.n=j Ḥr
Col. x+2, line 2	... nṯr.w .?. m-tp(?) n nṯr(?) ḏd.n Jtm n .?. [///]
Col. x+2, line 3	... ꜥḥꜥ r jr.t šꜥd jm=sn [///]
translation example from Roll B
line 1, fragm.1	[///] jmn r.?. [///]
line 1, fragm. 2	[///] tfnw.t sn.tj [///]
line 1, fragm. 3	[///] jmj pr(?)-wr pr/hs.?. [///]
line 1, fragm. 4	[///] bw (šꜥd?) Ḥr [///]
line 1, fragm. 5	[///] .?..tw Ḏḥwtj sꜣ(?) [///]
line 1, fragm. 6	r.?.m wpj.t(?) sḫr j! [///]
line 1, fragm. 7	[///] n.?. m ꜥ.wt nb(.wt) n [///]

translation example from Roll A
Col. x+2, line 1	... in the horizons of heaven, one comes in order to see Horus. I have found Horus.
Col. x+2, line 2	... the gods .?. on top(?) of the god(?). Atum said to .?. [///]
Col. x+2, line 3	... raising up in order to make a massacre among them. [///]
translation example from Roll B
line 1, fragm. 1	[///] hiding from(?).?. [///]
line 1, fragm. 2	[///]-god, Tefnut, the two Sisters [///]
line 1, fragm. 3	[///] being in the great house(?) .?. [///]
line 1, fragm. 4	[///]-place, the place of the (cutting off?), Horus [///]
line 1, fragm. 5	[///] (the cutting off?), Thoth, son of(?)[///]
line 1, fragm. 6	[///] .?. of falling down. O [///]
line 1, fragm. 7	[///] .?. in all limbs of [///]

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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);

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Literature

previousely unpublished

DatasetID	318233
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 318233 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.133), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.