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TM 48884 / LDAB 48884 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/48884

Metadata

Date: BC 175 - 161
cf. Studies Hughes p. 264 ('middle of the second century BC') and the date of the Greek text on the Vo (BC 161)

Provenance: Memphis, Saqqara, Serapeum - Egypt (1st Lower Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Demotic

Material: papyrus

Small fragment preserved

Book form: fragment; number of lines per page: 13

Content (beta!): wisdom text

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

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

Reuse type: other text(s) on the same object: TM 3474, TM 3475

Reuse note: Ro: Greek text (UPZ 1 84) on an effaced Demotic text, which remains unpublished (cf. UPZ 1 84 intr.); Vo: Greek texts (UPZ 1 83) between and under two columns of a Demotic wisdom text (cf. the photo in Studies Hughes p. 265); it is not clear whether the Demotic on the Ro and the Vo belongs together

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, LouvreCollections du Louvre => 3210 links in TM, TLAThesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae => 1328 links in TM

Publications

Studies Hughes p. 264-266 no. 1 (Williams, Ronald J. - 1976) [default]

∙UPZ 1 83 intr. descr. (Wilcken, Ulrich - 1927; only a description of the Demotic on the Vo)

∙UPZ 1 84 intr. descr. (Wilcken, Ulrich - 1927; only a description of the Demotic on the Ro)

Photo: Studies Hughes p. 265; B. Legras, Les reclus grecs du Sarapieion de Memphis, Stud. Hell. 49, 2011, p. 302

Content studies: N. Lazaridis, Wisdom in loose form, Mnemosyne Suppl. 287, Leiden 2007, p. 21

Script & book studies: the Greek texts offer a terminus ante quem for the Demotic

Collections

→ Paris, Louvre N 2377 Ro [palimpsest old] + N 2377 Vo [Demotic]

∙Paris, Louvre N 2375 (parallel)
∙Paris, Louvre N 2413 (parallel)

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Katochoi of the Sarapieion

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