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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.158

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.158
Current Location New York, Brooklyn Museum
Comments on Inventory Bequest of Miss 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Publication Status unpublished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 Not known but possibly Elephantine.
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 21 fragments inscribed in hieratic and one fragment inscribed in cursive hieroglyphs, one fragment in demotic(?). They obviously belong to several different documents.
Mounting (unknown)
Restoration Activities These papyrus fragments had been pasted on a piece of cardboard without indication as to their provenance, but presumably are Wilbour material. Put under glass in the fall of 1968.
Comments on Object Largest Fragment: 1 15/16 x 4 1/2 in. (5 x 11.5 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) Fragments inscribed in hieratic and one fragment inscribed in cursive hieroglyphs. The largest of the hieratic fragments is written in Old Kingdom hieratic. The other twenty hieratic fragments are written in Late Period hieratic.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting The difference in hands indicates that these fragments come from a number of different documents.

 

Text Content

Modern Title Papyrus fragments of several different text from Old Kingdom and from the Late Period
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
x+1 n(j) tꜣy
x+2 n(j) jrt ḥry.w
R
x+1 there is no heat/embers
x+2 there is no getting terrified
Brookl_47.218.158_frag
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CUR.47.218.158_R_001
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CUR.47.218.158_group_v
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Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
18th dynasty New Kingdom, possibly 18th Dynasty;

 

Pictures

Brookl_47.218.158_frag
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CUR.47.218.158_R_001
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CUR.47.218.158_group_v
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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318253
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 318253 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.158), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.