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| 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| Publication Status | unpublished |
| 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 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. |
| 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 | |
| Modern Title | Letter to the dead |
| Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
| Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown) |
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| 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) |
| 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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| 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. |
