CNI Publications 30

THE CARLSBERG PAPYRI 7

HIERATIC TEXTS FROMTHE COLLECTION

WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BYJ. F. QUACK, A. VON LIEVEN, K. RYHOLT

EDITED BYKIM RYHOLT

THE CARSTEN NIEBUHR INSTITUTE OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIESUNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN 2006 • MUSEUM TUSCULANUM PRESS

CNI Publications 30The Carlsberg Papyri 7Hieratic Texts from the Collection© K. Ryholt and Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006Cover design by Thora FiskerText set in Times New Roman by the authorsPlates prepared by Kim RyholtPrinted in Denmark by Special-Trykkeriet Viborg a/s

ISBN 87 635 0405 7

ISSN 0907-8118 (The Carlsberg Papyri)ISSN 0902-5499 (Carsten Niebuhr Publication)

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Editor of The Carlsberg PapyriKim Ryholt

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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The seventh volume of the Carlsberg Papyri is mainly dedicated to hieratic texts from the Tebtunistemple library. It begins with a survey of this large body of material which, for convenience, alsoincludes the much more sparse hieroglyphic material from the temple library. The surveysupplements the two surveys published earlier this year by myself, ‘On the Contents and Nature ofthe Tebtunis Temple Library – A Status Report’, and Alexandra von Lieven, ‘Religiöse Texte ausder Tempelbibliothek von Tebtynis – Gattungen und Funktionen’, in Sandra Lippert and MarenSchentuleit (eds.), Tebtynis und Soknopaiu Nesos: Leben im römerzeitlichen Fajum (Wiesbaden,2005).

The survey is followed by editions of the Opening of the Mouth Ritual, the Sokar Ritual, theVotive Cubit, an Osiris liturgy, and a list of book-titles. Further included are two non-hieratic itemsfrom the temple library, a fragment of an illustrated papyrus with a caption in hieroglyphs and adecorated band of papyrus, and a fragment of the text concerning the Nine-Headed Bes whichseems not to have been part of the temple library.

A brief glance at the table of contents will reveal that the present volume above all is the workof Joachim Quack. Alexandra von Lieven has also contributed with a substantial article, while myown contributions are rather modest. The three of us would like to dedicate the volume to Paul JohnFrandsen who has played a fundamental role in relation to the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection overthe years and who has always encouraged our work.

I should further like to express our deep gratitude to The Carlsberg Foundation for generouslyproviding the necessary funds for the publication of the present volume. Finally, on a personal note,my thanks are due to Cary Martin for checking the English of my contributions.

The plates of the present volume were prepared from a mixture of scans (Copenhagen and Oxfordfragments) and photographs (Berlin and Florence fragments). The Berlin photographs were madeby Margarete Büsing. The images of the individual fragments are all reproduced by kind courtesyof the collections to which they belong.

Kim RyholtNovember, 2005

TABLE OF CONTENTS

J. F. QuackDie hieratischen und hieroglyphischen Papyri page 1aus Tebtynis – ein Überblick

A. von LievenEine punktierte Osirisliturgie 9

P. Carlsberg 589 + PSI Inv. I 104 + P. Berlin 29022 (pls. 1-4, 1a-4a)

J. F. QuackEine Papyruskopie des Textes der Votivellen 39

P. Carlsberg 419 (pls. 5, 5a)

J. F. QuackEin neuer Zeuge für den Text zum neunköpfigen Bes 53

P. Carlsberg 475 (pls. 6, 6a)

J. F. QuackEine Handschrift des Sokarrituals 65

P. Carlsberg 656 (pls. 6, 6a)

J. F. QuackFragmente des Mundöffnungsrituals aus Tebtynis 69

P. Carlsberg 395 + PSI Inv. I 100 + P. Berlin 29025 (pls. 12-19, 12a-18a)P. Carlsberg 406 + PSI Inv. I 101 + P. Berlin 29023 (pls. 8-10, 8a-10a)P. Carlsberg 407 + P. Berlin 29026 (pls. 11, 11a)P. Carlsberg 408 + P. Berlin 20924 (pls. 7, 7a)P. Carlsberg 586 (pls. 6, 6a)P. Tebt. Tait 33 vs. (pls. 9, 9a)

K. RyholtA Hieratic List of Book Titles 151

P. Carlsberg 325 (pl. 20)

K. RyholtA Colored Offering Scene on Papyrus 157

P. Carlsberg 494 (pl. 21)

K. RyholtA Decorated Band for Tying a Papyrus Roll 159

P. Carlsberg 583 (pl. 21)

Plates at end

1 B. Holmen, ‘P. Carlsberg 53 back’, ZPE 78 (1989), 132, pl. VIIIb.2 A. Minto, in V. Bartoletti (ed.), Papiri greci e latini XIV (Firenze, 1957), 171-174, pl. IX.3 G. Botti, in V. Bartoletti (ed.), Papiri greci e latini XIV (Firenze, 1957), 174-177, pl. IX. Botti interprets the scene

as depicting a ‘divinità egizie con caricatura d’adorante’, but the naked boy with his finger to his mouth and the crownis in fact Harpocrates.

4 G. Botti, in V. Bartoletti (ed.), Papiri greci e latini XIV (Firenze, 1957), 177-180, pl. X.5 Olaf E. Kaper, The Egyptian God Tutu. A Study of the Sphinx-God and Master of Demons with a Corpus of

Monuments (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 119; Leuven, 2003), frontispiece. An image and description of this papyrusis also available through the APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) homepage.

6 H. Beinlich, Das Buch vom Fayum. Zum religiösen Eigenverständnis einer ägyptischen Landschaft (ÄA 51;Wiesbaden, 1991), with an additional fragment of the illustrated P. Carlsberg 56 in idem, ‘Hieratische Fragmente des“Buches vom Fayum” und ein Nachtrag zu BF Carlsberg’, ZÄS 124 (1997), 20-22, pl. 3.

7 An image and description of this papyrus is available through the APIS homepage.

A COLORED OFFERING SCENE ON PAPYRUS(P. CARLSBERG 494)

By KIM RYHOLT

Among the relatively few illustrated papyri in the collection is a fragment with remains of coloreddecoration (pl. 21, left). It was stored under a temporary inventory number together with materialof which some is certainly from the Tebtunis temple library. This, together with the fact that severalother papyri with color illustrations have been found at Tebtunis, could indicate that this was alsothe provenance of the present fragment. If this is correct then the fragment may be assumed to dateto the Greco-Roman period.

Papyri with color illustrations from Tebtunis include:

•P. Carlsberg 53 verso, drawing of ram-headed god1

•P. Carlsberg 229, drawing of mummy on bier; remains of hieroglyphic text (unpublished)•PSI 1450, drawing of iatromantis (a healer-seer, shaman)?2

•PSI 1451, drawing of Harpocrates before bull on standard and crowned uraeus3

•PSI 1452, drawing of priest between shrines and offering stands burning incense; remains of hieratic text4

•P. Berkeley Tebt. 13385, drawings of gods Tithoes and Bes, and man with sacrificial bull; caption in demotic5

Illustrations without color are more numerous. Apart from those that are embedded in texts (amongwhich the Book of Fayum6 offers a very nice example), they include:

•P. Carlsberg 668 verso, drawing of man with sacrificial bull (unpublished)•P. Berkeley Tebt. 14291+14292 verso, drawing of Ptolemaic queen (unpublished)7

The present fragment is a vertical strip from a papyrus measuring 21.1 cm in its height. The widthis 3.6 cm. Only the recto is inscribed. The fragment seems to belong to the scene of a man,presumably a king or a priest, performing a ritual act before a god. Only the hands of the man anda hieroglyphic caption, facing the man, are preserved in the narrow strip of papyrus.

158 KIM RYHOLT

8 Wb. IV 198.3; C. Leitz, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen VI (OLA 115; Leuven, 2003), 431.9 Crum, Coptic Dictionary (Oxford, 1939), 355-356; Erichsen, Demotisches Glossar, 443. For two further demotic

attestations, P. Berlin P 13633 and O. Amsterdam 26, see K.-Th. Zauzich, Papyri von der Insel Elephantine (DPB 3;

Berlin, 1993), no. 13633 with note on x+6.

The upper hand is cupped and holds an item which I cannot identify, while the lower hand seems

to hold an ankh-sign or a sistrum. One would expect the caption to contain the name or designation

of a god, but unfortunately the reading remains doubtful. It seems to consist of a single word which

apparently reads , srm, following by an obscure determinative. %rm, with the divineeM

1determinative, is attested as a designation of Apophis.8 The latter is presumably related to demotic

srm, Coptic swrm, ‘intr. go astray, err, be lost; tr. lead astray, lose; nn. error’,9 rather than srm,

‘cause to cry’, the causative of rmi. It does, however, seem somewhat unlikely that anyone would

be shown offering to Apophis.

Apart from black, three colors can be discerned: green, reddish brown, and a dark brown. The

reddish brown is used for the skin color of the person before the god. The object held in his upper

hand is dark brown, and the object held in the lower hand is green. It may be noted that the dark

brown has not bound well with the papyrus and most of it has flaked off.