Pap. Paris, Louvre AF 13035

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. Paris, Louvre AF 13035
Current Location	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The right and left margins are damaged. There are few holes and breaks.
Comments on Object	belongs to Pap. Paris, Louvre E 10614

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	parallel
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	The whole height of s column is preserved. The beginnings and ends of nearly all lines are lost. There is text loss due to holes and breaks.
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
Comments on Handwriting	"This is the only hieratic text amongst the corpus of Book of Thot manuscripts." (According to: Jasnow & Zauzich 2005, 87)
Comments on Text Layout	- spatium in line 8 and line 16 - guiding lines - Pap. Paris, Louvre AF 13035: col. x+I - Pap. Paris, Louvre E 10614: col. x+II
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	17
Line Lenght (in mm)	104

Text Content

Modern Title	Book of Thot
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	religious \| polytheistic Egyptian
Summary of Content	"This is the only hieratic text amongst the corpus of Book of Thoth manuscripts." (According to: Jasnow & Zauzich, Book of Thoth (2005), 87)
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Text

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

Pap. Paris, Louvre E 10614

I
1	[///] Who is the one who conducts the father? Seek for yourself! Who are you? Who are you? The one who gave birth to [///]
2	[///] [I am] the one who loves knowledge, the one who seeks out the spellcraft of the Ibis for himself, the one who bound up [///]
3	[///] [climb up] to the cavern, you not knowing its/her/their form. Do not draw near [///]
4	[///] the ibises of ? ¹The translation of jnr with the house determinative is unclear.. The carers(?) are they. The throat of iron [///]
5	[///] throat with a throat of copper. Let me make a barking with you [///]
6	[///] while the excellent spirits are thinking(?) in my heart [///]
7	[///] will you burn myrrh? Do not enter into the House of Life. Stinking bulls are as(?) the ones [///]
8	[///] Do you not have guardians(?)? Do you not have a place here? Give your face!
9	[///] father the one who sent you. A teacher who is comparable to his compensation ²According to: Jasnow/ Zauzich, Book of Thoth (2005), 379.[///]
10	[///] [libations(?)] which are in the Chamber of Darkness. I have come as the primeval one(?) [///]
11	[///] [burn] perfume of myrrh [///] Who/ what are(?) my [///] clothes [///]
12	[///] Painful is their food, difficult ³According to: Jasnow/ Zauzich, Book of Thoth (2005), 371 and 380. [///]
13	[///] They [do not] become drunk with wine(?). They do not anoint with unguent. Their throat [///]
14	[///] the ones who remain. Mouths are joyful. Snakes upon the two lips [///]
15	[///] sustenance. Baboons, ?/fruits, these reptiles [///]
16	[///] What is their manner of serving?
17	[///] water pots [///] the chapters(?). I will remove [///]

¹ The translation of jnr with the house determinative is unclear.
² According to: Jasnow/ Zauzich, Book of Thoth (2005), 379.
³ According to: Jasnow/ Zauzich, Book of Thoth (2005), 371 and 380.

Pap. Paris, Louvre AF 13035

II
1	[///] supply coal for [///]
2	[///] [embrace(?)] the containers [///]
3	[///] I will draw near to their [///]
4	[///] bring the sacred rolls(?) [///]
5	[///] ? What is it? The chamber [///]
6	[///] I being(?) asleep, throw [///] I(?) came to the [///]
7	[///] establishes(?) [///]
8	[///] [possessors of] offerings
9	[///] your limbs and your flesh, saying I shall act in [///]
10	[///] ? I caused that you stand [///]
11	[///] ? he being after(?) [///]
12	[///] craftsmen of the House of Life and the Khnum-builder gods [///]
13	[///] tutor(?) [///]
14	[///]
15	[///] flesh [///] to them [///]
16	[///] ? [///]
17	[///] to me(?) a goddess(?) on acoount of(?) [///]

AF_13035_R_001

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Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Roman Period				100 CE 199 CE	Probably Second Century CE (According to: Jasnow & Zauzich, Book of Thot (2005), 87);

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AF_13035_R_001

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Literature

Jasnow, Richard & Zauzich, Karl Th, The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth : a Demotic Discourse on Knowledge and Pendant to the Classical Hermetica (2005). (366-387, no. L02, pl. 61)

DatasetID	308423
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	69432
Author	Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308423 (= Pap. Paris, Louvre AF 13035), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen; Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.