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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.140

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Metadata

Collection

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Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

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

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.

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) 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.

 

Text Content

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)

 

 

Dates

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;

 

Pictures

Brookl_47.218.140_box_
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Brookl_47.218.140_frag
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Literature

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).