Papyrus Chester Beatty XVI

Metadata

knowledge domains
Alternative Names
Recto: Trismegistos 372044 Verso: Trismegistos 139348
Present location
Europe » Great Britain » (Cities K-N) » London » British Museum

Inventory number: BM EA 10696

Find spot
Asyut to First Cataract » Thebes » West Bank » Deir el-Medina
Date
Era and Dynasty Dates » Pharaonic Period » New Kingdom » 20th Dynasty
Text type
Magical spell
Material
Organic » Fiber (from plants and animals) » Papyrus
Object type
Artefact » Writing surfaces » Scroll
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. Bd. 1. Text (London 1935), 127–129.

- Gardiner 1935 II: A. H. Gardiner, Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum. Third Series: Chester Beatty Gift. II. Plates (London 1935), pl. 71.

Bibliographic references

- Bruyère 1929: B. Bruyère, Rapport sur les fouilles de Deir el Médineh (1929), Fouilles de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale 7 (Le Caire 1930), map 1.

- Černý 1978: J. Černý, Papyrus hiératiques de Deir el-Médineh. Tome I. Nos I-XVII, Documents de fouilles de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale 8 (Le Caire 1978), VIII.

- Gabler 2018: K. Gabler, Who’s who around Deir el-Medina. Untersuchungen zur Organisation, Prosopographie und Entwicklung des Versorgungspersonals für die Arbeitersiedlung und das Tal der Könige, Egyptologische Uitgaven 31 (Leuven 2018), 273.

- Koenig 1981: Y. Koenig, Notes sur la découverte des papyrus Chester Beatty, in: Bulletin de l’Institut Français 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.

- Roccati 2011: A. Roccati, Magica Taurinensia. Il grande papiro magico di Torino e i suoi duplicati, Analecta Orientalia 56 (Roma 2011), 91–93, 161.

A complete bibliography can be found here.

Author
Dr. Lutz Popko

Translation and Commentary

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