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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.2A-B

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Metadata

Collection

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Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

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

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.

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) 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

 

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. 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)

 

 

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, likely Saite Period;

 

Pictures

Brookl_47.218.2A_box_S
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Brookl_47.218.2A_R_001
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Brookl_47.218.2B_box_S
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Brookl_47.218.2B_R_001
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Literature

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).