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TM 56077 / LDAB 56077 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/56077

Metadata

Date: about 4th century BC: BC 399 - 300
cf. Jasnow, Wisdom Text, p. 7

Provenance: Heliopolis (Tell Hisn) ? - Egypt (13th Lower Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Hieratic

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Book form: roll; number of lines per page: 16, 20, 21, 18

Content (beta!): wisdom text

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

Recto/Verso: Ro, back: blank

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

Publications

Jasnow, A late Period Hieratic wisdom text (SAOC 52) (Jasnow, Richard - 1992) [default]

∙Hudecz / Petrik (ed.), Commerce and economy in ancient Egypt (BAR Int. 2131) p. 51 & n. 17 (Endreffy, Kata - 2010)

∙Welt des Orients 24 (1993), p. 10-19 (Quack, Joachim Friedrich - 1993; translation with corrections)

Script & book studies: text dated on palaeographical criteria in the 30. dynasty or the beginning of the early Ptolemaic period (Jasnow, Wisdom Text, p. 7)

Collections

→ New York, Brooklyn Museum Accession no. 47.218.135

Archive

Temple library of Heliopolis

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    TM 56077

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