The “Fayum Library”
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Kim Ryholt
Abstract
A number of important demotic literary papyri are inscribed in a highly characteristic hand, which is perhaps best known to colleagues from the two copies of Petechons and Sarpot in Vienna (table, nos 1 and 2). The purpose of the present paper is to bring attention to these papyri as a group and to discuss their possible provenance and social context. It will be argued that the bulk of the papyri derive from discoveries at two different sites; the larger in the 1880s, possibly in the area of Medinet el-Fayum, and the second in the early 1930s at Tebtunis. My interest in these papyri is owing to my work on a number of them (nos 3-6, 8, 14), most recently the “Reykjavik Inaros”, to the fact that several are housed in the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection (nos 3, 7-10), and not least to their similarity with the material found in the Tebtunis temple library deposit.
Abstract
A number of important demotic literary papyri are inscribed in a highly characteristic hand, which is perhaps best known to colleagues from the two copies of Petechons and Sarpot in Vienna (table, nos 1 and 2). The purpose of the present paper is to bring attention to these papyri as a group and to discuss their possible provenance and social context. It will be argued that the bulk of the papyri derive from discoveries at two different sites; the larger in the 1880s, possibly in the area of Medinet el-Fayum, and the second in the early 1930s at Tebtunis. My interest in these papyri is owing to my work on a number of them (nos 3-6, 8, 14), most recently the “Reykjavik Inaros”, to the fact that several are housed in the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection (nos 3, 7-10), and not least to their similarity with the material found in the Tebtunis temple library deposit.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- Abstracts xi
- Further Abstracts xix
- Poster Presentations / Posterpräsentationen xxvii
- Overview of the Program / Programmübersicht xxix
- List of Participants / Teilnehmerliste xxxv
- Eugene “Gene” Cruz-Uribe xxxvii
- A Glimpse on the Site of Nagʿ El-Mashaykh through two Demotic Texts 1
- Some Remarks on Bilingual Mummy Labels in the Louvre 15
- Tituli ptolémaïques du désert oriental égyptien 39
- Miscellanies from the Archive of the Theban Choachytes 93
- The Auction of Pharaoh Revisited 107
- “This oath is a true oath”: Family Involvement in the Demotic Temple Oaths 123
- A Re-examination of P. Tor. Botti 34 A 135
- Of Pots, Sherds, and Drachmas 151
- A Persian Estate in Egypt 175
- Did Steindorff know Demotic? 197
- Voices from Late and Graeco-Roman Period Elkab 211
- The “Fayum Library” 249
- Inaros in Iceland and Elsewhere 271
- Donation Stelae 281
- Issues in the Dating of Saqqara Papyri 295
- Der verborgene Name des Gottes Amun in demotischen Texten 303
- Index 311
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- Abstracts xi
- Further Abstracts xix
- Poster Presentations / Posterpräsentationen xxvii
- Overview of the Program / Programmübersicht xxix
- List of Participants / Teilnehmerliste xxxv
- Eugene “Gene” Cruz-Uribe xxxvii
- A Glimpse on the Site of Nagʿ El-Mashaykh through two Demotic Texts 1
- Some Remarks on Bilingual Mummy Labels in the Louvre 15
- Tituli ptolémaïques du désert oriental égyptien 39
- Miscellanies from the Archive of the Theban Choachytes 93
- The Auction of Pharaoh Revisited 107
- “This oath is a true oath”: Family Involvement in the Demotic Temple Oaths 123
- A Re-examination of P. Tor. Botti 34 A 135
- Of Pots, Sherds, and Drachmas 151
- A Persian Estate in Egypt 175
- Did Steindorff know Demotic? 197
- Voices from Late and Graeco-Roman Period Elkab 211
- The “Fayum Library” 249
- Inaros in Iceland and Elsewhere 271
- Donation Stelae 281
- Issues in the Dating of Saqqara Papyri 295
- Der verborgene Name des Gottes Amun in demotischen Texten 303
- Index 311
