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New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.588

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.588
Current Location New York, Brooklyn Museum
Comments on Inventory Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their 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Publication Status unpublished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 Place purchased: Elephantine Island Egypt. Provenance: Unknown. Purchased at 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 Elephantine
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 Jug
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Incomplete pottery jug with red slip. Flat circular base. Body flares out sharply to shoulder, and then in to long cylindrical neck. Handle, now missing joined neck to body. Condition: Most of neck and handle missing.
Mounting (unknown)
Comments on Object 4 15/16 x 3 3/4 x 3 7/16 in. (12.6 x 9.5 x 8.7 cm), Height 12.7 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) On front of body two lines of Hieratic written in black. Inscription slightly defaced.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian

 

Text Content

Modern Title Letter to the dead
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • religious | polytheistic Egyptian
Summary of Content Text apparently a letter to the dead.
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
18th dynasty -1539 BCE -1292 BCE New Kingdom (probably), early Dynasty 18;

 

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Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318255
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 318255 (= New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.588), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.