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| Inventory Number | Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.17a-f [Demotic] |
| Current Location | New York, Brooklyn Museum |
| Comments on Inventory | Bequest of 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| Publication Status | unpublished |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 | Elephantine (Wilbour statement). Paper in which papyrus was received marked “El. 24. Feb. 1894”. Purchased at Dakkeh on Feb. 24, 1894. |
| 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 | Dakkeh, Nubia |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Acquisition for the Intitution | donation |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | “Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour.”
Certainty: high |
| Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
| Object Type | papyrus |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| State of Preservation | 47.218.17a-3: Largest fragment: 2 9/16 × 1 9/16 in. (6.5 × 4 cm) 47.218.17b-1: 5 3/8 × 1 1/2 in. (13.6 × 3.8 cm) 47.218.17b-1: Largest fragment: 2 1/2 × 1 7/8 in. (6.4 × 4.7 cm) 47.217.17b-2: Largest fragment: 3 3/8 × 2 3/8 in. (8.6 × 6 cm) 47.218.17c-1: Largest fragment: 1 5/16 × 1 3/16 in. (3.4 × 3 cm) 47.218.17c-2: Largest fragment: 2 1/2 × 1 7/8 in. (6.4 × 4.7 cm) 47.218.17d: 3 1/8 × 2 1/2 in. (8 × 6.3 cm) 47.218.17d: Largest fragment: 3 3/8 × 2 1/2 in. (8.5 × 6.3 cm) 47.218.17e: Largest fragment: 1 3/16 × 1 in. (3 × 2.6 cm) 47.218.17f: Fragment #1: 4 1/16 × 1 9/16 in. (10.3 × 4 cm) 47.218.17f: Fragment, #2: 2 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (6.3 × 4.5 cm) |
| Mounting | (unknown) |
| Comments on Object | Eight Groups of Papyrus Fragments. A large group of fragments in various scripts. Prior to 1966, the fragments were divided into subsets a-e. |
| 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) | more fragments existant than in photo shown | |
| Script, Primary | Demotic | |
| Language, Primary | Demotic | |
| Comments on Text Layout | Layout undetectable due to the fragmentary condition. | |
| Modern Title | papyrus fragments from accounts |
| Ancient Archives | (Uncertain) |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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| Summary of Content | Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition. Some fragments contain accounts in Egyptian currency |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| Ptolemaic dynasty or Roman Period | -332 BCE 211 CE | ; |
| Brooklyn 47.218.17a_3_ |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| Brooklyn 47.218.17b_1_ |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| Brooklyn 47.218.17b-2_ |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| Brooklyn 47.218.17d_fr |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| DatasetID | 318321 |
| last Change | 29.07.2022 |
| Author | Jan Moje |
| Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation | Data set 318321 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.17a-f [Demotic]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |
