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TM 56081 / LDAB 56081 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/56081

also known as Apis Papyrus; Apis Embalming Ritual

previously also TM 129911 (double), TM 755057 (double)

Metadata

Date: second half 2nd century BC: BC 150 - 100
cf. Vos, Apis embalming ritual p. 7

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

Language/script: Demotic / Hieratic

parallel: alternating Hieratic and Demotic passages

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Book form: roll; number of lines per page: 27, 9, 25, 26, 16, 13, 14, 23

Content (beta!): religious text, embalming ritual (Embalming ritual of the Apis bull)

Culture & genre: religion — theology (religion: Egyptian)

Recto/Verso: Ro

Reuse type: blank side reused by: TM 56191

Note: red ink rubrics, spatia

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM

Publications

Quack (ed.), Ägyptische Rituale der griechisch-römischen Zeit p. 263-338 (Meyrat, Pierre - 2014)
&Vos, Apis embalming ritual p. 241-254 Ro (Vos, René L. - 1993) [default]

∙Bergmann, Hieratische und hieratisch-demotische Texte 27 p. XVI pl. 10-15 (Bergmann, Ernst von - 1886; especially for the images)

∙Göttinger Miszellen (GM) 75 (1984), p. 33 [3873 Ro] descr. (Satzinger, Helmut - 1984)

Photo: Quack, Ägyptische Rituale (end of the volum)

Script & book studies: date: Vos, Apis embalming ritual p. 7

Collections

→ Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum 3873 Ro
+→ Zagreb, Archaeological Museum 597 - 2

∙Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum dem. 27 Ro (previous)
∙Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum Arbeitsheft 482 (previous)

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    TM 56081

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