Wilbour Papyrus

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. 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.

Wilbour Papyrus
A piece of the Wilbour Papyrus in the Brooklyn Museum (c. 2010)
Sizelength: 10 meters
Createdc. 1145 BC
DiscoveredAswan, Aswan Governorate, Egypt
Present locationNew York City, New York, United States
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