Oracular Amuletic Decree P3 (Papyrus Paris Louvre E 25354)

Metadata

knowledge domains

Magic

keywords

protection against animals (in general) » protection against snakes protection against humans protection against animals (in general) » protection against scorpions protection against “supernatural“ beings » protection against deities amulet protection against animals (in general) » protection against crocodiles protection against “supernatural“ beings » protection against demons

Alternative Names

Present location

inventory number: E 25354

Online collections

https://www.louvre.fr/

Find spot

Date

from: to:

Text type

Material

Object type

Script

Language

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), 85–88.

- 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), pl. 32–34.

Bibliographic references

- Adderly 2015: N. J. Adderly, 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).

- Barbotin 1999: Chr. Barbotin. Le Papyrus Chassinat III. In: RdE 50, 1999, 5–26.

- Bellion 1987: M. Bellion. Égypte ancienne: catalogue des manuscrits hiéroglyphiques et hiératiques et des dessins, sur papyrus, cuir ou tissu, publies ou signalés. Paris 1987.

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

- Budka/Mekis 2022: J. Budka, T. Mekis. The family of Pa-di-Amun-neb-nesut-tawy from Thebes (TT 414) revisited: the case study of Kalutj/Nes-Khonsu (G108 + G137). Archaeopress Egyptology 42. Oxford 2022.

- 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.

- Bierbrier 2012: M. L. Bierbrier, Who was Who in Egyptology, 4. Auflage (London 2012), 553.

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

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

- Guentch-Ogloueff 1940: M. Guentch-Ogloueff, Noms propres imprécatoires, in: Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale 40, 1940, 117–133.

- 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.

- 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 21^st – 24^th Dynasties: Proceedings of a Conference at Leiden University, 25-27 October 2007, Egyptologische Uitgaven 23 (Leuven 2009), 231–239.

- 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.

- Vandier 1953: J. Vandier, Chronique de L’Art Ancien et Moderne, in: La Revue des Arts et des Musées 3.2, 1953, 127–132.

- 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).

Online ressources

Louvre: https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010003499 (10.11.2025)

Author

Author of metadata

Translation and Commentary

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

Science in Ancient Egypt