Science in Ancient Egypt

Oracular Amuletic Decree T1 (Papyrus Turin Cat. 1983)

Metadata

knowledge domains
Magic
keywords
amulet
Alternative Names
OAD T1
Present location
Europe » Italy » (Cities Q-Z) » Turin » Museo Egizio
Find spot
Asyut to First Cataract » Thebes
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), 1–13.

- 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. 1–3.- Fabretti et al. 1882: A. Fabretti et al., Regio Museo di Torino. Antichità egizie 1, Catalogo generale dei musei di antichità e degli oggetti d’arte raccolti nelle gallerie e biblioteche del Regno 1.1 (Torino 1882), 259.

- Peust 2008: C. Peust. Ein Orakelamulett (pTurin 1983), in: B. Janowski – G. Wilhelm (Ed.), Omina, Orakel, Rituale und Beschwörungen, Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments. Neue Folge 4 (Gütersloh 2008), 324–330.

- Pleyte – Rossi 1869–76: W. Pleyte – F. Rossi, Papyrus de Turin (Leiden 1869–1876), pl. 139–140.

Bibliographic references

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

- Botti 1921: G. Botti, La collezione Drovetti e i papiri del R. Museo Egizio di Torino, in: Rendiconti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche: serie quinta 30 (11–12), 1921, 128–135, 143–149.

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

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

- Jacquet-Gordon 1960: H. J. 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 (Ed.), Hommages à la mémoire de Serge Sauneron 1927-1976. I. Égypte pharaonique, Bibliothèque d’Étudte 81 (Caire 1979), 167–183, pl. 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 (Ed.), 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.

- 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 (Ed.), Echoes of Eternity. Studies presented to Gaballa Aly Gaballa, Philippika 35 (Wiesbaden 2010), 96–105.

- Thirion 1988: M. Thirion, Notes d’onomastique. Contribution à une révision du Ranke PN (sixième série), in: Revue d’Égyptologie 39, 1988, 131–146.

- 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).

A complete bibliography can be found here.

Author
Dr. Anke Ilona Blöbaum

Translation and Commentary

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