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Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.2A-B |
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Publication Status | unpublished |
Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
Ancient Provenance Details | Provenance: 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 Type | papyrus |
Range of Preservation | incomplete |
State of Preservation | 3 larger fragments. There are an additional 12+ fragments that are smaller than 1 x 1 cm., in reality little more than frayed pieces of papyrus. One shows traces of ink. |
Mounting | (unknown) |
Comments on Object | Dimensions (2A): the largest fragment is 7 x 3 cm. Dimensions (2B): one fragment is c. 2 x 2 cm.; the other 1 x 1 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) | Fragments Inscribed in Hieratic and Demotic. 2A comprises 3 fragments, two in hieratic and 1 in demotic. 2B comprises 2 very small hieratic fragments. | |
Script, Primary | Hieratic | |
Script, additional A | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Middle Egyptian | |
Language, additional A | Ptolemaic Demotic |
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. The Demotic fragment is unreadable due to the fragmentary condition. |
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 |
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) | -664 BCE -525 BCE | Late Period, likely Saite Period; |
previousely unpublished
DatasetID | 318256 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Author | Verena Lepper, Daniela C. Härtel (Metadata); Jan Moje (Demotic) |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 318256 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.2A-B), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper, Daniela C. Härtel (Metadata); Jan Moje (Demotic). |