Science in Ancient Egypt

Oracular Amuletic Decree C1 (Papyrus Kairo CG 58035)

Metadata

knowledge domains
Magic
keywords
protection against “supernatural“ beings » protection against demons protection against “supernatural“ beings » protection against deities protection against animals (in general) » protection against scorpions amulet defence spell (preventive magic) » protection while travelling protection against substances and other things » protection against diseases protection against animals (in general) » protection against snakes
Alternative Names
OAD C1
Present location
Africa » Egypt » Cairo » Egyptian Museum
Find spot
Between Cairo and Assiut » Between Cairo and el-Faiyum » West Bank » Saqqara
Date
from: Era and Dynasty Dates » Pharaonic Period » 3rd Intermediate Period » 21st Dynasty to: Era and Dynasty Dates » Pharaonic Period » 3rd Intermediate Period » 22nd–23th Dynasty
Text type
Oracular Amuletic Decree
Material
Organic » Fiber (from plants and animals) » Papyrus
Object type
Artefact » Writing surfaces » Sheet
Script
Hieratic
Language
Egyptian-Coptic » Egyptian » Late Egyptian
Editions

- Edwards 1960a: I. E. S. Edwards, Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum. Fourth Series. Oracular Amuletic Decrees of the Late New Kingdom. I. Text (London 1960), 95–98.

- Edwards 1960b: I. E. S. Edwards, Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum. Fourth Series. Oracular Amuletic Decrees of the Late New Kingdom. II. Plates (London 1960), Taf. 37–38.

- Golénischeff 1927: V. S. Golénischeff. Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musèe du Caire: Papyrus hiératiques. Kairo 1927, 216–230.

- Mariette 1872: A. Mariette. Les Papyrus égyptiens du Musée de Boulaq II. Paris 1872, pl. 57 [20].

Bibliographic references

- Adderley 2015: N. J. Adderley, Personal Religion in the Libyan Period in Egypt (Saarbrücken 2015), 191–218.

- Austin 2014: A. Austin, Contending with Illness in Ancient Egypt (Los Angeles 2014) (24.10.2019).

- Bourriau/Ray 1975: J. D. Bourriau/J. Ray, Two Further Decree-Cases of ŠꜢḳ, in: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 61, 1975, 257–258.

- Bülow-Jacobson 2009: A. Bülow-Jacobson, Writing Materials in the Ancient Word, in: R. S. Bagnall, The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (Oxford 2009), 3–29.

- Černý 1939: J. Černý, Late Ramesside Letters, Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca IV (Brüssel 1939), xvii–xx.

- Coulon 2018: L. Coulon. Rez. Fischer-Elfert. Magika Hieratika, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (OLZ) 113, 2018, 116–119.

- Edwards 1960a: I. E. S. Edwards, Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum. Fourth Series. Oracular Amuletic Decrees of the Late New Kingdom. I. Text (London 1960), 49–51.

- Edwards 1960b: I. E. S. Edwards, Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum. Fourth Series. Oracular Amuletic Decrees of the Late New Kingdom. II. Plates (London 1960), Taf. 16–17.

- Golénischeff 1927: V. S. Golénischeff, Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musèe du Caire: Papyrus hiératiques (Kairo 1927).

- Grams 2017: A. Grams, Der Gefahrenkatalog in den Oracular Amuletic Decrees, in: Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 46, 2017, 55–100.

- Jacquet-Gordon 1960: H. H. Jacquet-Gordon, The Inscription on the Philadelphia-Cairo Statue of Osorkon II, in: JEA 46, 1960, 12–23.

- Jacquet-Gordon 1963: H. J. Jacquet-Gordon, [Review:] I. E. S. Edwards, Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum. Fourth Series. Oracular Amuletic Decrees of the Late New Kingdom, 2 Bände (London 1960), in: Bibliotheca Orientalis 20, 1963, 31–33.

- Jacquet-Gordon 1979: H. Jacquet-Gordon, Deux graffiti de l’époque libyenne sur le toit du temple de Khonsou à Karnak, in: Anonymous (Hrsg.), Hommages à la mémoire de Serge Sauneron 1927-1976. I. Égypte pharaonique, Bibliothèque d’Étudte 81 (Caire 1979), 167–183, Taf 27–29.

- Kaplony-Heckel 1986 : U. Kaplony-Heckel. Ägyptische Handschriften. Teil 3. Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD) XIX.3. Wiesbaden 1986.

- Koenig 1987: Y. Koenig, Notes de transcription, in: Cahiers de Recherches de l’Institut de Papyrologie et d’Égyptologie de Lille 9, 1987, 31–32.

- Koenig 2018: Y. Koenig, Un nouveau décret amulettique oraculaire: Pap. IFAO H 40, Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale 118, 2018, 233–239.

- Lucarelli 2009: R. Lucarelli, Popular Beliefs in Demons in the Libyan Period: The Evidence of the Oracular Amuletic Decrees, in: G. P. F. Broekman - R. J. Demarée – O. E. Kaper (Hrsg.), The Libyan Period in Egypt. Historical and Cultural Studies into the 21st – 24th Dynasties: Proceedings of a Conference at Leiden University, 25-27 October 2007, Egyptologische Uitgaven 23 (Leuven 2009), 231–239.

- Mariette 1872: A. Mariette. Les Papyrus égyptiens du Musée de Boulaq II (Paris 1872).

- Ray 1972: J. Ray, Two Inscribed Objects in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 58, 1972, 247–253.

- Ritner 2009: R. K. Ritner, The Libyan Anarchy. Inscriptions from Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period (Atlanta 2009), 74.

- Roß 2019: A. Roß, Der Schutz von Kindern im alten Ägypten. Die religiösen und soziokulturellen Aspekte der Oracular Amuletic Decrees (Göttingen 2019).

- Sourouzian 2010: H. Sourouzian, Seti I, not Osorkon II. A new join to the statue from Tanis, CG 1040 in the Cairo Museum, in: O. El-Aguizy – M. S. Ali (Hrsg.), Echoes of Eternity. Studies presented to Gaballa Aly Gaballa, Philippika 35 (Wiesbaden 2010), 96–105.

- Turner 1978: E. C. Turner, The Terms Recto and Verso: The Anatomy of the Papyrus Roll. Papyrologica Bruxellensia: études de papyrologie et édition de sources 16 (Bruxelles 1978).

- Verhoeven 2001: U. Verhoeven, Untersuchungen zur späthieratischen Buchschrift, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 99 (Leuven 2001), 13.

- Wilfong 2013: T. G. Wilfong, The Oracular Amuletic Decrees: A Question of length, in: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 99, 2013, 295–300.

- Winand 1992: J. Winand, Études de néo-égyptien 1: La morphologie verbale, Aegyptiaca Leodiensia 2, Liège 1992.

Author
Dr. Anke Ilona Blöbaum
Author of metadata
Dr. Anke Ilona Blöbaum

Translation and Commentary

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