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TM 55919 / LDAB 55919 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/55919

also known as Anchscheschonqi; Onchsheshonqi; Onchsheshonqy; Instruction of Ankhsheshonq

Metadata

Date: 1st century BC: BC 99 - 1

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

Language/script: Demotic

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Book form: roll; number of lines per page: 20, 22, 21, 19, 24, 23, 25, 26, 11

Content (beta!): wisdom text: Onchsheshonqy

Authors / works: Onchsheshonqi (direct attestation)

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

Recto/Verso: Ro, back: blank

More info: BMThe British Museum => 11071 links in TM [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9], DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, DPDPThe Demotic Palaeographical Database Project => 216 links in TM, TLAThesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae => 1328 links in TM

Publications

Enchoria 36 (2018-2019), p. 129-143 (Quack, Joachim Friedrich - 2018-2019 [2021]; default for col. 1-2)
&Glanville, Onchsheshonqy p. 2-66 (Glanville, Stephen Ranulph Kingdon - 1955) [default]

∙Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments (TUAT) 3.2 (1991), p. 251-277 (Thissen, Heinz-Josef - 1991)

∙Thissen, Anchscheschonqi p. 14-39 (Thissen, Heinz-Josef - 1984)

∙Jaarbericht Ex oriente lux 15 (1957-1958), p. 15-33 (Stricker, Bruno H. - 1957-1958)

Photo: Enchoria 36 (2018-2019), pl. 12-13

Content studies: N. Lazaridis, Wisdom in loose form, Mnemosyne Suppl. 287, Leiden 2007, p. 22-25

Script & book studies: dated on palaeographical grounds to the late Ptolemaic period (Glanville, Onchsheshonqy p. XII)

Other bibliography: Zauzich, Enchoria 33 (2012-2013), p. 185-187; Quack, Enchoria 37 (2020-2023), p. 25-29

Collections

→ London, British Museum EA 10508 + EA 10520 [2 misplaced fr.]

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    TM 55919

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