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Title Hymn to the Inundation
Citations
Inv. Id O. OI 19266
Support/Dimensions ostracon ; 16.5 x 14.0 cm
Condition Pottery. Upper right corner and bottom missing. Some flaking.
Lines Recto: 12 lines in Hieratic
Recto/Verso Source of description: On recto: hymn
Hands Written on one side only in a rather large, coarse Ramesside hand. No rubrics; verse points, lines 9 to 11 only.
Origin Theban area
More from Theban area
Language Hieratic
Date ca. 1200-1080 B.C.
More from the period between 1200 BCE and 1080 BCE
Note (general) Location: Oriental Institute
Note (general) Pub. status: Published: recto
Subjects Literary; ostracon
Associated Names Khnum
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

O. O.I. 19266, recto: (1) [Who creates the rapacious man to rage] (2) [throughout the land. Great men and humble] are (3) [wandering the land. Who is always confusing mankind] as to when (4) [he draws near. Khnum] fashioned him. (5) When you appear, then the land is in [joy]; (6) Then everybody is in joy; each backbone - (7) it has taken on his laughter; (8) his tooth [is bared]. Who brings food; (9) who is magnanimous of provisions; who creates his good things of every sort. (10) Lord of awe, who is fragrant of aromas. What is pleasing (?) - that is (11) from you. Who makes flourish the herbage for cattle; who provides (12) [sacrificial beasts for each god].