Catalog Record: chicago.apis.5553 [xml]

Title	Coffin texts
Citations
Inv. Id	P. OIM 14087
Support/Dimensions	1 papyrus ;
Lines	On recto: 0 lines
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 27364. 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	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

P. OIM 14087, recto: Column 29 is blank.