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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.138a-i

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Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.138a-i
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Publication Status	unpublished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 ‘2M with (here illegible word) la? Provenance not given, but Elephantine in all likelihood.
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	A damaged roll of papyrus. Outer layers badly broken; inner part seemingly well preserved.
Mounting	(unknown)
Comments on Object	Overall: 9 1/16 × 133 7/8 in. (23 × 340 cm) a: Glass: 12 1/16 x 27 5/8 in. (30.7 x 70.2 cm) a: Largest Fragment: 8 5/16 x 12 1/2 in. (21.1 x 31.8 cm) b: Glass: 12 5/8 x 15 3/4 in. (32 x 40 cm) b: Largest Fragment: 7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in. (20 x 14 cm) c: Glass: 12 1/2 x 19 11/16 in. (31.7 x 50 cm) c: Largest Fragment: 8 1/4 x 8 13/16 in. (21 x 22.4 cm) d: Glass: 12 3/8 x 20 1/2 in. (31.5 x 52 cm) d: Object: 9 3/16 x 16 9/16 in. (23.3 x 42 cm) e: Glass: 12 5/8 x 19 3/4 in. (32 x 50.2 cm) e: Largest Fragment: 9 3/16 x 18 1/4 in. (23.4 x 46.3 cm) f: Glass: 14 9/16 x 19 11/16 in. (37 x 50 cm) f: Object: 7 7/8 x 17 11/16 in. (20 x 45 cm) g: Glass: 12 5/8 x 25 5/8 in. (32 x 65.1 cm) g: Largest Fragment: 8 3/4 x 21 5/16 in. (22.2 x 54.2 cm) h: Glass: 12 1/2 x 21 3/4 in. (31.8 x 55.2 cm) h: Largest Fragment: 8 7/16 x 16 15/16 in. (21.5 x 43 cm) i: Glass: 12 5/8 x 21 7/8 in. (32 x 55.5 cm) i: Object: 8 9/16 x 15 1/4 in. (21.7 x 38.7 cm) Measurements: Height of roll, 22.5 cm. Dimensions: present overall length c. 340 cm.; 12 of the preserved pages show a height range of 20.6‑23 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)	Red and black Hieratic. Large papyrus roll. A damaged roll of papyrus, the remains of which preserve between 17 and 19 columns of text in varying degrees of completeness.
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting	Clear script.

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Text against snakes and scorpions
Ancient Archives	(Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	religious | polytheistic Egyptian | magical
Summary of Content	The text is a composite that can be divided into four main sections: x+I, 1-x+VIII, 15: spells against snake-bites that have already happened with an appeal to the poison to leave the body of the person afflicted; x+VIII, 15- x+XI, 14: spells to prevent snakes from leaving their holes and against scorpions from raising their tails; x+XI, 14-x+XVI, 15: ritual of “the four balls;” x+XVI, 15-x+XVII, 16: spells for capturing snakes. Nb In his review Quack mentions that he located three fragments of this papyrus in Berlin (p. 257) that seem to belong to the first extant column of the papyrus. He also suggests that Goyon’s x+I and x+II should be reversed, and that the fragments of the latter more likely form the right hand portion of the first extant column.
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

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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;

 

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Literature

• Eschweiler, Peter, Bildzauber im alten Ägypten (1994). (58-59)
• Goyon, Jean-Claude, Le recueil de prophylaxie contre les aggressions des animaux venimeux du Musée de Brooklyn (2012). ()
• Goyon, Jean-Claude, Textes mythologie II. Les révélations du mystére des quatre boules (1975). (350ff)
• Goyon, Jean-Claude, Un parallèle tardif d'une formule des incriptions de la statue prophylactique de Ramsès III au Musée du Caire (Papyrus Brooklyn 47.218.238) (1971). (154 ff)
• Quack, Joachim Friedrich, Rezension: Goyon Le recueil de prophylaxie contre les aggressions des animaux venimeux du Musée de Brooklyn (2013). (256-272)
• Ryhiner, M.L., A propos de trigrammes pantheists (1977). (127 no.17)
• von Kanel, Frédérique, Les pretres-ouab de Sekhmet et les conjurateurs de Serket (1984). (196 f, no. 26)

 

DatasetID	318240
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 318240 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.138a-i), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.