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Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.140 |
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Publication Status | unpublished |
Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
Ancient Provenance Details | Received in plain container. 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 Type | papyrus |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | A group of small fragments, approximately 300-600 in number. Many fragments of fair size but most pieces are small. Something can be salvaged though it is unlikely that any consideration portion of continuous text can be assembled. |
Mounting | (unknown) |
Comments on Object | Average Fragment Size: 1 3/16 × 1 3/16 in. (3 × 3 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, c. 6.5 cm. |
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) | All fragments inscribed in Old Kingdom Hieratic, but at least one demotic fragment is shown in the random sample photo. | |
Script, Primary | Hieratic | |
Script, additional A | Middle Demotic | |
Script, additional B | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
Comments on Handwriting | Clear, early hand. | |
Comments on Text Layout | Many of the fragments are opisthographic. |
Modern Title | papyrus fragments of unclear content |
Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Summary of Content | Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. The writing in columns shows the old age (Old Kingdom), apart from the palaeography. The word "scribe" can be read on the fragments. The Demotic fragment belongs to an account, mentioning 2,5 kite and 1/3 Heqat. |
Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Old Kingdom | -2350 BCE -2170 BCE | Old Kingdom, dynasty 6, and later; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 318242 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Author | Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel; Jan Moje (Demotic) |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 318242 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.140), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel; Jan Moje (Demotic). |