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TM 55918 / LDAB 55918 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/55918

also known as Papyrus Insinger; Insinger Papyrus

Metadata

Date: 1st century BC: BC 99 - 1
cf. Hoffmann, Enchoria 22 (1995), p. 38-39 [ca. 70 BC]; Short Texts: early Roman period

Provenance: Panopolis (Akhmim), bought - Egypt (9th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]
cf. P. L. Bat. 31, p. 251

Language/script: Demotic

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Book form: roll; number of lines per page: 25, 24, 23, 22

Content (beta!): wisdom text: parallel version to P. Insinger

Authors / works: Great Demotic wisdom text (direct attestation)
Great Demotic wisdom text (direct attestation)

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

Recto/Verso: Ro

Reuse type: other text(s) on the same object: TM 58292

Reuse note: Greek text written on a separate strip of papyrus is pasted upon the back of col. 10

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, PennPenn Museum => 366 links in TM [2][3], TLAThesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae => 1328 links in TM

Publications

Short Texts 2 1139 (Vleeming, Sven P. - 2011; only default for col. 35, 13-15)
&Enchoria 32 (2010-2011), p. 88 (Zauzich, Karl-Theodor - 2011; only default for Philadelphia E 16335)
&Dem. Conf. VII (Copenhagen 1999) p. 2-19 (Agut-Labordère, Damien - 2009; default for Paris and Heidelberg fragments)
&Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments (TUAT) 3.2 (1991), p. 280-319 (Thissen, Heinz-Josef - 1991; German consecutive translation of the complete text, including the first two columns (Philadelphia fragments))
&Lichtheim, Wisdom literature in international context p. 107-109 descr. (Zauzich, Karl-Theodor - 1983; default for Philadelphia 16333 A and 16334 A)
&Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JEA) 16 (1930), p. 4 no. F-G (Sobhy, G. P. G. - 1930; default for Cairo, Egyptian Library F-G) Please subscribe to follow this link
&Lexa, Papyrus Insinger 1 p. 1-113 (Lexa, Frantisek - 1926; Leiden fragments) [default]

∙Studies Silverman p. 337-350 (Wegner, Jennifer Houser - 2010; Philadelphia E 16335)

∙Volten, Kopenhagener Texte Weisheitsbuch p. 10-50 no. P. Insinger (Volten, Aksel - 1940; partim)

∙Oudheidkundige Mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden (OMRO) 3 (1922), p. XXV-LXXII (Boeser, Pieter Adrian Art - 1922)

∙Revue égyptologique 10 (1902), p. 2-34 (Revillout, Eugène - 1902) Please subscribe to follow this link

Script & book studies: date: Hoffmann, in: Enchoria 22 (1995), p. 38-39

Other bibliography: DBL add. 1, 2007, p. 13

Collections

→ Cairo, National Library of Egypt (Dar al-Kutub) F-G
+→ Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie P. Dem. 683 A-D
+→ Leiden, National Museum of Antiquities F 1895 / 5 . 1 (P. Insinger) Ro
+→ Paris, Académie des Inscriptions et des Belles Lettres Fonds Seymour de Ricci Objet 193-200 Complément
+→ Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum E 16333 A + E 16334 A + E 16335

∙Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale 240 (previous)

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