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Title Coffin texts
Citations
Inv. Id P. OIM 14059
Support/Dimensions 1 papyrus ;
Lines On recto: 14 lines in hieratic
Recto/Verso Source of description: On recto: Coffin texts
Origin Unknown
More from Unknown
Language Hieratic
Date XXIVth - XXIst century B.C.
More from the period between 2374 BCE and 2061 BCE
Note (general) See also OIM Photo 27336. Measurements not given. Undated. Allen questioningly dated this papyrus to the 6th dynasty (c.2374-2191 B.C.). (Allen, p. 31) Gardiner preferred a First Intermediate Period date (c.2190-2061 B.C.). (See Willems, p. 246, n. 24.) Mathieu dates it to the end of dynasty 6 and cites other scholars' datings, as well. (See BdE 139, p. 254 and n.59-60.) Dates follow D.B. Redford (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (2001). The numbers for the entire papyrus are OIM 14059-87. See Lesko (p. 74) for a list of spell numbers in P. Gardiner III and corresponding line numbers. P. Gardiner II in the British Museum also contains hieratic coffin texts and may be dated to the same period as this text. In Spell 943, lines 82(b-c) and 90(e-f) are repeated as refrains after the subsequent lines. In Spell 945, lines 95-216 comprise a list in tabular form in the following layout: 95, 96-109, 110, 111-124, 125, 126-147, 148, 149-170, 171, 172-193, 194, 195-216. Lines 95, 125 and 171 contain the copula ''iw'' and lines 110, 148 and 194 contain the possessive pronoun ''i'' + the ''m'' of predication. These lines apply to the subsequent sentences. The last two sentences of Spell 543 (line 307) have been written twice, though the first occurrence (the one on the right side) is very damaged. Spells 961 and 963 (lines 320 and 325-326) are lost.
Note (general) Location: Oriental Institute
Note (general) Pub. status: Published: recto
Subjects Khemennu; Dep; Bubastis; Pe; Ut; Dendera; Upper Egypt; region of the Two Bulls; Khem; Field of Offerings; Field of Rushes; Winding Waterway; Malachite-land; region of the Bull; Two Lands; Neret; Funerary; Religion; Literary; Papyrus
Associated Names Kenneh; Primeval One; Horus; Maat; Tchenenet; Tywtyw; Baboon; Sekhmet; Hathor; Sokar; Wenty; Ptah; Thoth; Sed; Seth; Re; Anti; Khonsu; Nehebkaw; Khepri; God of Magic; Great Hearer; Two Powers; Wepwawet; Gespen; Soped; Shesmetet; Great Pathfinder; Twin Souls; Bull of Governance; Geb; Destroyer; Neith; Iunmutef; Centipede; Isis; Nephthys; Shu; Tefnut; Osiris; Ha; Khonsu; Seth; Babi; Neith; Nut; Wadjet; Min; Nekhbet; Heneg; Shestet; Apep; Sia; Atum; Penedned; Sewnetch; Hekek; Hu; Kenzet; Double Lion; Henew; Beauteous One; Sobek; Aw; Aseb
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APIS Translation (English)

P. OIM 14059, recto: (Sp.937) ... (2)...I have [streng]th by means of my utterance... (3)...which are in the Netherworld... (4)...shapes...Make a path for me... (5)...fiery...for the blast of [this] spirit of fire... (8)...[the prai]se of me(?), a multitude serves me in my suite, and I will make... (9)...the sky shall be protected. I have acclaim, and men will bring to me from the reaping...of strength. (Sp.938) ... (10)...the god is formed and comes into being within the...Kenneh has formed me... (11)...has conceived me..., her womb [fashioned(?)] me, my two mothers bore me... (12)...they saw her who bore the god in me, who knew [me(?)]. I am the Primeval One, greatly powerful and loud-voiced (13)...of this my great majesty...