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Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.146 |
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Publication Status | unpublished |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 unmarked 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. A few large fragments, majority very small. |
Mounting | (unknown) |
Comments on Object | Average Papyrus Size: 1 3/16 × 1 3/16 in. (3 × 3 cm). Measurements: Max. width, c. 7 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 are inscribed in Old Kingdom Hieratic. Fragment 1a: 3 columns of text on the verso, 4 columns of text on the recto. | |
Script, Primary | Hieratic | |
Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
Comments on Handwriting | Clear bold hand. Fragment 1a: thin hand-writing, just a litte range in sign-width. | |
Comments on Text Layout | Many of the fragments are opisthographic. Fragments inscribed recto and verso in Hieratic, red and black. |
Modern Title | papyrus fragments of unclear content - Fragment 1a: letter(?) |
Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. Fragment 1a: Possibly from a letter? Because of the formula "the servant there". |
Location of Composition | unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 Transcription by M. V. Almansa-Villatoro
1 name? |
1 Translation (partially) by M. V. Almansa-Villatoro
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Places (read out from edition) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
06th dynasty | -2350 BCE -2170 BCE | Old Kingdom, VI dynasty ; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 318248 |
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 318248 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.146), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel. |