Papyrus Chester Beatty XII

Metadata

knowledge domains
Alternative Names
TM 381081
Present location
Europe » Great Britain » (Cities K-N) » London » British Museum

Inventory number: BM EA 10692

Find spot
Asyut to First Cataract » Thebes » West Bank » Deir el-Medina
Date
from: Era and Dynasty Dates » Pharaonic Period » New Kingdom » 19th Dynasty to: Era and Dynasty Dates » Pharaonic Period » New Kingdom » 20th Dynasty
Text type
Mythological/magical fragment
Material
Organic » Fiber (from plants and animals) » Papyrus
Object type
Artefact » Writing surfaces » Sheet
Script
Hieratic
Language
Egyptian-Coptic » Egyptian » Middle Egyptian
Editions

- Gardiner 1935 I: A. H. Gardiner, Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum. Third Series: Chester Beatty Gift. I. Text (London 1935), 122.

- Gardiner 1935 II: A. H. Gardiner, Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum. Third Series: Chester Beatty Gift. II. Plates (London 1935), pl. 69.

Bibliographic references

- Bruyère 1929: B. Bruyère, Rapport sur les fouilles de Deir el-Médineh (1928), Fouilles de l’Institut Franҫais d’Archéologie Orientale du Caire 6,2 (Le Caire 1929), map I.

- Černý – Posener 1978: J. Černý – G. Posener, Papyrus hiératiques de Deir el-Médineh. I. Nos I–XVII, Documents de Fouilles de l’Institut Franҫais d’Archéologie Orientale du Caire 8 (Le Caire 1978), VIII.

- Hall 1930: H. R. H. Hall, The Chester-Beatty Egyptian Papyri, in: British Museum Quarterly 5,2, 1930, 46–47.

- Koenig 1981: Y. Koenig, Notes sur la découverte des papyrus Chester Beatty, in: Bulletin de l’Institut Franҫais d’Archéologie Orientale 81, 1981, 41–43.

- Pestman 1982: P. W. Pestman, Who Were the Owners, in the "Community of Workmen", of the Chester Beatty Papyri, in: R. J. Demarée – J. J. Janssen (Ed.), Gleanings from Deir el-Medîna, Egyptologische Uitgaven 1 (Leiden 1982), 155–172.

A complete bibliography can be found here.

Author
Dr. Anke Ilona Blöbaum

Translation and Commentary

For complete metadata, translation, and commentary, see German version.