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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.618

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.618
Publication Number	P.Brook. 92 descr.
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Publication Status	unpublished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	Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details	glass fram marked Elephantine, Feb. 1890
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
Dating of Object	Julio-Claudian dynasty
Dating	between -30 and 50
Range of Preservation	incomplete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	verso/recto
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	literary script

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Fragments
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	literary
Summary of Content	22 Fragments, some of them in literary hands. no transcript, cf. J. Shelton, P.Brook., p. 119
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	no transcript
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	unknown

 

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
				-30 BCE 50 CE	palaeographical dating;

 

Pictures

 

Literature

• Shelton, John C., Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca, and wooden tablets in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. (no. 92)

 

DatasetID	318275
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 318275 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.618), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.