History
The date of the scroll's discovery is not known. It was purchased around 1889 by Charles Edwin Wilbour and donated to the museum by his daughter Theodora Wilbour in the early 1930s. The manuscript might originate from a temple at ancient Heliopolis.
In 1989 French Egyptologist Serge Sauneron published an extensive description of the manuscript in his book "Un traité égyptien d’ophiologie - Papyrus du Brooklyn Museum nos 47.218.48 et 85"
At present the manuscript is not at display at the Brooklyn Museum. The archive numbers are 47.218.48 and 47.218.85.
Read more about this topic: Brooklyn Papyrus
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