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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.135

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.135
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Publication Status	unpublished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	unknown () [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details	Container marked ‘Black 7.’ 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

Object Type	papyrus
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Mass of papyrus fragments and portion of small papyrus roll. Inscribed on recto in small, clear black Hieratic. Fragments are of fair size and appear to belong to same text as roll.
Mounting	(unknown)
Restoration Activities	Aug. - Dec. 1959, assembled by Mr. Giambalvo, including frags, from envelopes and boxes other than .135. Photographed Jan., 1960 (negs. I - IX); prints sent to G. Posener.
Comments on Object	Overall: 7 7/8 × 52 1/8 in. (20 × 132.4 cm) a: Glass: 13 x 20 in. (33 x 50.8 cm) a: Object: 9 7/16 x 17 5/16 in. (24 x 44 cm) b: Glass: 13 x 20 in. (33 x 50.8 cm) b: Object: 9 1/16 x 19 11/16 in. (23 x 50 cm) c: Glass: 13 1/16 x 18 11/16 in. (33.2 x 47.5 cm) c: Object: 9 1/4 x 14 in. (23.5 x 35.5 cm) d: Glass: 13 x 14 15/16 in. (33 x 38 cm) d: Largest Fragment: 1 x 2 3/16 in. (2.5 x 5.5 cm) Measurements: Length of roll, 13 cm. Dimensions: L. 132.4 cm. ; H. 17.5 to 20 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)	Five columns of text. Inscribed on recto in small, clear black Hieratic. Six columns of text. The papyrus roll under glass presently comprising six columns of text. There are an additional 77 (approximately) unplaced fragments.
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout	The number of lines per columns varies between 16 and 21.

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Hieratic Wisdom Text - Brooklyn Wisdom Papyrus
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	literary | wisdom
Summary of Content	Hieratic Wisdom Text. The content of the papyrus indicates that it belongs to the genre of “wisdom literature.” Its central theme is the relationship between the servant and the superior.
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)					Late Period, end of the Saite Period, late 6th century B.C.E.;

 

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Literature

• Assmann, Jan, Preservation and Presentation of Self in Ancient Egyptian Portraiture (1996). (79 no. 55)
• Cooney, John D., Department of Ancient Art (1959). (43)
• Jasnow, Richard Lewis, A late Periode Hieratic Wisdom Text (1992). ()
• Léclant, Jean, VIII e Colloque International du Centre de Recherches d'Histoire des Religions de Strasbourg, 17-19 mai 1962: Les Sagesses du Proche-Orient ancien (1963). (102)
• Lichtheim, Miriam, Moral Values on Ancient Egypt (1997). (69-76)
• Posener, Georges & Sainte Fare Garnot, Jean, Sur une sagesse egyptienne de Basse Epoque (1963). (153-157)
• Posener, Georges, Sur un papyrus didactique inedit de Basse Epoque conserve au Musee Brooklyn. (116-117)
• Saint Fare Garnot, Jean, X. Religion de l'Egypte (1963). (58-60)
• Spalinger, Anthony, The Concept of the Monarchy during the Saite Epoch, An Essay of Synthesis (1978). (12-30)

 

DatasetID	318235
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 318235 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.135), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.