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TM 48778 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/48778

Metadata

Date: BC 5 Jul 6?
cf. JEA 61 (1975), p. 182 bottom

Provenance: Tebtynis (Umm el-Baragat) - Egypt (EgyptThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Demotic

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Content (beta!): letter to Sobek to curse someone with illness

Culture & genre: religion — magic, invocation, letter to a god, curse, exorcism (religion: Egyptian)

Recto/Verso: Ro, back: blank?

Reuse note: 'The reverse ('Verso') is presumably blank, although this is obscured by the mounting, as the papyrus has been stuck on to a backing-sheet which also serves as ground for another text, a lease of Year 33 of Philadelphus', cf. JEA 61 (1975), p. 181.

Publications

P. Götterbriefe 8 (Migahid, Abd el-Gawad - 1987) [default]

∙Hudecz / Petrik (ed.), Commerce and economy in ancient Egypt (BAR Int. 2131) p. 52 & n. 33 (Endreffy, Kata - 2010)

∙Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JEA) 80 (1994), p. 260 descr. (Smith, Mark J. - 1994) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JEA) 61 (1975), p. 181-182 (Ray, John David - 1975) Please subscribe to follow this link

Other bibliography: DBL, 2005

Collections

→ Copenhagen, Carlsberg Papyrus Collection P. 67

Archive

Temple library of Tebtynis (erroneous)

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    TM 48778

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