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TM 55880 / LDAB 55880 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/55880

also known as P. Spiegelberg 1-18; P. de Ricci 1-29; PSpiegelberg 1-18; Pde Ricci 1-29

Metadata

Date: first half 1st century BC: BC 99 - 50
cf. Enchoria 22 (1995), p. 38-39

Provenance: Panopolis (Akhmim) - Egypt (9th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]
cf. Enchoria 22 (1995), p. 38

Language/script: Demotic

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Book form: roll; number of lines per page: 24, 25, 26, 27, 23

Content (beta!): narrative, Inaros - Petoubastis cycle

Authors / works: The Petoubastis cycle (direct attestation)

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

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo

Reuse type: palimpsest new, effacing: see notes

Reuse note: palimpsest old: Demotic; both Ro/Vo were originally inscribed with another text

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, DPDPThe Demotic Palaeographical Database Project => 216 links in TM, PennPenn Museum => 366 links in TM [2][3], TLAThesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae => 1328 links in TM

Publications

Dodson e.a. (ed.), A good scribe and an exceedingly wise man. Studies W. J. Tait p. 271-278 (Ryholt, Kim S. B. - 2014)
&Enchoria 29 (2004-2005), p. 5-7 no. 26-29 (Agut-Labordère, Damien - 2004-2005; default for Pap. de Ricci 26-29)
&P. L. Bat. 27 p. 50-60 (Hoffmann, Friedhelm - 1995; default for col. A-E (= Pap. de Ricci 1-2, 5, 8, 10, 16-17))
&Enchoria 22 (1995), p. 31-38 no. 3 (Hoffmann, Friedhelm - 1995; default for col. F-G (= Pap. de Ricci 6, 13, 23))
&Spiegelberg, Sagenkreis Petubastis p. 36-42 [Pap. de Ricci 1-25] (Spiegelberg, Wilhelm - 1910; default for Pap. de Ricci 3-4, 7, 9, 11-12, 14-15, 18-22, 24-25)
&Spiegelberg, Sagenkreis Petubastis p. 14-34 [Pap. Spieg. 1-18] (Spiegelberg, Wilhelm - 1910; default for Pap. Spieg. 1-18) [default]

∙Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments (TUAT) N.F. 8 (2015), p. 418-437 (Stadler, Martin Andreas - 2015)

∙Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JEA) 16 (1930), p. 4 no. A-C descr. (Sobhy, G. P. G. - 1930) Please subscribe to follow this link

Photo: JEA 16 (1930), p. 3-4, plate V-VII (Cairo-fragments); Dodson e.a. (ed.), Studies W. J. Tait, p. 272 & 278

Script & book studies: date based on the similarity to P. Moscow, Pushkin Museum I.1.d. 123 dated to BC 68 (cf. Enchoria 22 (1995), p. 38-39)

Collections

→ Cairo, National Library of Egypt (Dar al-Kutub) A + B + C + E
+→ Copenhagen, Carlsberg Papyrus Collection P. 565
+→ Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale 242 (P. de Ricci 1-29)
+→ Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum E 16333 B + E 16333 C + E 16334 B
+→ Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale Wiss. Ges. dem. number unknown (P. Spiegelberg 1-18)

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