Rightmost portion in Figure 3, which formed the outer abraded surface of the Subsequently handled, and this explains the especially poor preservation of the The map was rolled up when discovered and Photo-mosaics derived from digital scans of photographs taken of the papyrus. Spacing between the breaks within them should match for those fragments thatĪre vertically juxtaposed and (3) the topography and geology of the area shown The fiber patterns in the papyrus paper (2) the width of the fragments and the The map side, the texts and drawings on the map’s backside ( Figure 7 This new reconstruction is consistent with the requirements that: (1) theĪdjoining fragments should correlate closely in terms of the features drawn on Of gaps between many of the fragments (which shortens the map to about 210 cm). The principal changes are the transposition of mapįragments H-J and E, the placement of L at the bottom of E, and the narrowing A new arrangement of the map fragments has been proposed and this isįigure 6. Museum, which dates to the early 1900’s, is incorrect in several of itsĭetails. The current reconstruction of the map in the Egyptian Most of these fragments were eventually recombined to formĪ single map about 280 cm long by 41 cm wide ( Figure 2). Parts of three separate papyri that were designated as ‘Papyrus or P. The many map fragments were originally considered In 1824, this kingĮstablished the Egyptian Museum in Turin, the kingdom’s capital, and here the Northern Italian Kingdom of Sardenia and Piedmont. SoonĪfter it was found, the map was sold to king Charles Felix, ruler of the Kingdom (1539-1075 BC) in the nearby Valley of Kings and Valley of Queens. Responsible for excavating and decorating the royal tombs of the Egyptian New Of Luxor (ancient Thebes) in Egypt ( Figure 1). Private tomb in the ancient village of Deir el-Medina, near the modern-day city The key to the mystery (though he did not turn it) was provided in 1 9 1 4 by Prof.Scroll of papyrus paper was discovered between 18 by agents ofīernardino Drovetti, the French Consul General in Egypt. Ferrar of the Geological Survey was deceived by the presumably conventional rectan¬ gular arrangement of the wadis on the papyrus into identifying them with the similar natural drainage-system of Wadi Kareim, where there are indeed some ruined houses, but no gold-workings, either ancient or modern. Linant de Bellefonds rather too eagerly equated it with the gold¬ mining village of Daraheib in the Sudan, where however the ruins are mediaeval and Arab in date : while in our own time, Mr. Lepsius, misled by the stela of Seti I, saw in the papyrus merely a plan of the tomb of that monarch at Thebes. Various conjectures have been made from time to time as to the locality, which this map is intended to represent, and some of these are demon¬ strably very wide of the mark. They depict a wadi-system running through pink mountains which are declared to contain gold and silver, while a dark hill in their midst is ornamented with a stela of Seti I. Some fragments of a roll of papyrus, brought more than a century ago from Thebes by Drovetti, and preserved in the Museum of Turin, have, ever since 1 8 5 2, been regarded as the oldest map in the world.
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