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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.137

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.137
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Publication Status unpublished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 Unknown. Container marked ‘Bl.’ 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, Theodora
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation A group of 9 inscribed papyrus fragments, among them two demotic fragments.
Mounting (unknown)

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) 9 inscribed papyrus fragments, 7 of which are written in Late Period Hieratic and 2 in Demotic. The fragments bear too little text for positive identification and classification, at least for the present.
Script, Primary Demotic
Language, Primary Demotic

 

Text Content

Modern Title papyrus fragments of unclear content
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content 2 fragments. Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. No photos available
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 - Roman period -664 BCE 211 CE Late Period to Roman Period;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 318239
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 318239 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.137), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.