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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.150b

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.150b
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Publication Status unpublished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 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, Charles Edwin
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation 65+ papyrus fragments, many of them are very small, only millimeters in width and height.
Mounting (unknown)
Comments on Object 47.218.150b: Largest Fragment #1: 13/16 × 1 3/16 in. (2 × 3 cm) 47.218.150b: Largest Fragment #2: 13/16 × 13/16 in. (2 × 2 cm) Small Box of Fragments: 1 3/4 x 4 1/16 x 4 1/16 in. (4.5 x 10.3 x 10.3 cm). Dimensions: largest fragments are 2 x 3 cm. and 2 x 2 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) Many of the papyrus fragments are inscribes in Late Period Hieratic. Many other fragments are very small, only millimeters in width and height. The small size of all of the fragments obviates the reading of more than a handful of signs.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian

 

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.
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 (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) -664 BCE -525 BCE Late Period;

 

Pictures

Brookl_47.218.150_view
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318252
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 318252 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.150b), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.