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TM 55857 / LDAB 55857 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/55857

Metadata

Date: Tybi (1st month Peret season) ?: BC 146 Jan 27 - Feb 25?
cf. Quack, P. L. Bat. 40, 2023, p. 22 n. 25: BC02; against Vinson, 2017, p. 177: BC 250 Feb 22 - Mar 23?
BC 135 Jan 24 - Feb 19?
cf. Quack, P. L. Bat. 40, 2023, p. 22 n. 25

Provenance: Dios Polis (Thebes east) - Egypt (4th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Demotic

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Book form: roll; highest page number: [6]; number of lines per page: 40, 39, 21

Content (beta!): Setne I

Authors / works: Setne novel: 01 (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature — prose, novel (religion: Egyptian)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo, back: note?

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, DPDPThe Demotic Palaeographical Database Project => 216 links in TM, TLAThesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae => 1328 links in TM

Publications

Vinson, The craft of a good scribe p. 111-129 (Vinson, Stephen M. - 2017) [default]

∙Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments (TUAT) N.F. 8 (2015), p. 387-400 (Vittmann, Günther - 2015)

∙Goldbrunner, Der verblendete gelehrte p. 3-31 (Goldbrunner, Sara - 2006)

∙Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian literature 3 p. 126-138 (Lichtheim, Miriam - 1980)

∙P. Lesestücke 1 p. 1-40 (Erichsen, Wolja Christian - 1937)

∙P. Cairo 2 30646 descr. (Spiegelberg, Wilhelm - 1908) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Griffith, High priests of Memphis p. 82-141 no. 1 (Griffith, Francis Llewellyn - 1900)

∙Revue égyptologique 13 (1911), p. 38-43 (Revillout, Eugène - 1911; col. 1/9 - 1/24 only) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Revue égyptologique 12 (1907), p. 107-109 (Revillout, Eugène - 1907; col. 1/1-8 only) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Hess, Demotische Roman p. 1-144 (Hess von Wys, Jean Jacques - 1888)

∙Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde (ZÄS) 18 (1880), p. 15-16 (Maspero, Gaston - 1880; col. 5/30-38)

∙Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde (ZÄS) 16 (1878), p. 72-74 (Maspero, Gaston - 1878; col. 5/11-30 only)

∙Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde (ZÄS) 15 (1877), p. 133-134 (Maspero, Gaston - 1877; col. 4/38 - 5/10 only)

Photo: S. Vinson, The craft of a good scribe, p. 322-339

Content studies: S. Vinson, The craft of a good scribe, 2018

Script & book studies: dated in the Early Ptolemaic period. The colophon gives a regnal year 15 (Tybi). Spiegelberg, Denkmäler II, p. 88, supposes Ptolemy III. Euergetes, thus year 232 BC.

Other bibliography: Quack, P. L. Bat. 40, 2023, p. 22 & n. 25

Collections

→ Cairo, Egyptian Museum CG 30646

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