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TM 68650 / LDAB 9922 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/68650

also known as Mertens-Pack 02588.400

Metadata

Date: 3rd century BC: BC 299 - 200

Provenance: Memnoneia - Djeme (Thebes west), Deir el-Bahari - Egypt (4th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Greek

Material: stone (limestone) — ostracon

Incompletely preserved

Book form: sheet

Content (beta!): literary text, Amenothes: sentences of Amenothes, with title 'hypothekai Amenothou'

Authors / works: Amenothes, Sententiae: (with title) (direct attestation)
Seven sages, Sententiae (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature — prose, wisdom, sententiae (religion: classical, Egyptian background)

Recto/Verso: Ro

More info: BMThe British Museum => 11071 links in TM, DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, MP3Mertens-Pack 3 => 7426 links in TM

Publications

I. Deir El-Bahari Lajtar p. 399-403 no. A 2 (Łajtar, Adam - 2006) [default]

∙Corpus dei papiri filosofici (CPF) 2.3 p. 128-135 [Gnom. 15] (Funghi, Maria Serena - 2017)

∙Totti, Ausgewählte Texte der Isis- und Sarapis-Religion (Subsidia epigraphica 12) 46 (Totti, Maria - 1985)

∙Serapis 5 (1979), p. 43-47 (Oikonomides, Alcibiade N. - 1979)

∙Aegyptiaca. Festschrift Georg Ebers p. 142-145 (Wilcken, Ulrich - 1897)

∙Cribiore, Writing, teachers, and students 239 descr. (Cribiore, Raffaella - 1996) (= catalogue only)

Photo: I. deir El-Bahari, pl. 27

Content studies: D. Wildung, Imhotep und Amenhotep (1977), p. 258-259; M.S. Funghi, Aspetti di letteratura gnomica nel mondo antico, II, Firenze 2004, p. 381-384; A.-E. Veïsse, in : F. Kayser et L. Médini (éd.), Communautés nouvelles en Egypte hellénistique et romaine,, 2017, p. 135-152.

Collections

→ London, British Museum EA 33405

∙London, British Museum reg. no. 1900,1120.65 (previous)

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