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Title Coffin texts
Citations
Inv. Id P. OIM 14077
Support/Dimensions 1 papyrus ;
Lines On recto: 13 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 27354. 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.
Note (general) Location: Oriental Institute
Note (general) Pub. status: Published: recto
Subjects Funerary; Religion; Literary; Papyrus
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

P. OIM 14077, recto: (Sp.981) [damaged] (Sp.982) (398)[I am] the son of Isis who inflames(?) sky and earth, my wings are...I fly up(?)... (399)...I land as Re in the West. O you men, spirits, gods or powers who would oppose yourselves to me (400)...ascend as Shu. 'O my son, use your feet' says my mother Isis to me. (401)...when he reaches...says my mother... (403)...use your feet, hurry, hurry, run, for you will not be named if he has not yet reached you--so says my mother Isis to me. (Sp.412) (404)...who sits in the great place of the sky, and as for any god who will not come following me, I will speak afterwards. (Sp.983) (405)...for providing for living. The whole of the two skies comes to him, (and also) [the Lord(?)] of the Field of Offerings and of Rushes. (408)...who is in the Netherworld.