A piece of the Wilbour Papyrus in the Brooklyn Museum (c. 2010)[1]
Size
length: 10 meters
Created
c. 1145 BC
Discovered
Aswan, Aswan Governorate, Egypt
Present location
New York City, New York, United States
The Wilbour Papyrus, named after the New York journalist who acquired it, Charles Edwin Wilbour, is the largest known non-funerary papyrus from Ancient Egypt. It is an administrative document which contains a survey of cultivatable lands in the late Ramesside Period of the New Kingdom of Egypt. The papyrus is 10 meters long and divided into two sections, text A and text B. Text A contains an extensive account of lands both privately and collectively owned. Text B is much shorter and contains an account of exclusively royal lands.[2] The Wilbour Papyrus is a rare case of a well preserved look into the economic administration of Ancient Egypt. Egyptologists have been able to use it to produce a more complete analysis of the function of the Ancient Egyptian state.
^"The Wilbour Papyrus". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
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