Current Edition: DCLP 65612 (UPZ 1 81); TM 65612

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Title Nectanebo's Dream
Principal Edition UPZ 1 81
study 15306. María Paz López Martínez, Fragmentos papiráceos de novela griega., (Alicante 1998). 1 21-27
catalogue 14384. Raffaella Cribiore, Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt., (Atlanta, Georgia 1996). 245 descr.
Reference Edition 57270. Ludwig Koenen, "The Dream of Nektanebos.," BASP, 22 (1985), pp. 171-194.
Catalog(s) MP3 02476.000
Fragments Leiden, National Museum of Antiquities P. d'Anastasi 67; Leiden, National Museum of Antiquities I 396
Support Material papyrus
Support Dimensions 80cm wide x 17cm high
Date ca. 150 v.Chr.
More from the period between 150 BCE and 149 BCE
Origin Fundort: Memphis (Memphites, Egypt) oder ; Schreibort: Memphis (Memphites, Egypt)
More from Fundort: Memphis (Memphites, Egypt) oder ; Schreibort: Memphis (Memphites, Egypt)
Form and Layout papyrus roll (columns: 5, pagination: 0)
Genre prose; divination; incubation
Culture literature
Religion classical; Egyptian background
Images rmo.nl/.../195873; rmo.nl/.../195874; rmo.nl/.../22663
Print Illustrations C. Leemans, Papyri Graeci; Boswinkel-Sijpesteijn, Greek Papyri, ostraca and mummy-labels, pl.6; M.J. Raven, Papyrus. Van Bies tot Boekrol, 1982, p.14; B. Legras, Les reclus grecs du Sarapeion, Stud. Hell. 49, 2011, p. 299
Availability © Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri and LDAB (Trismegistos). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License .

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Introduction

The text presented here follows that of UPZ I 81 in line numbering. I (jcowey) felt that this avoids the complications that might follow if the continuous line numbering used by Koenen and López Martínez (different in each case) had been used. The six lines preceding Πετήσιος in line 6 of column 1 have been added. They are clear on the image and were included by María Paz López Martínez in her edition.

Column i

14 lines untranscribed
5／ 1 line untranscribed
6 1 line untranscribed
7／ 1 line untranscribed
——
8Πετήσιος
9ἱερωγλύφου
10πρὸς Νεκτοναβὼι
11τὸν βασιλέα
12Πετ̣ε̣ει̣σ̣ηη

Column ii

1ἔτους ις Φαρμοῦθι κα εἰ τὴν κβ, [.....]
2κατὰ θεὸν δὲ διαδεχομενίαν, Νεκτροναβὼς
3τοῦ βασιλέως καταγινομένου ἐ<μ> Μέμφει καὶ θυσίαν
4ποτὲ συντελεσαμένου καὶ ἀξιώσαντος τοὺς
5θεοὺς δηλῶσαι αὐτῶι τὰ ἐνεστηκότα ἔδοξεν
6κατ' ἐνύπν<ι>ον πλοῖον παπύρινον ὃ καλεῖται
7Αἰγυπτιστεὶ Ῥω<μ>ψ προσορμῆσαι εἰς Μέμφιν,
8ἐφ' οὗ ἦν θρόνος μέγας· ἐπί τε τούτου καθῆσθαι
9τὴν μεγαλώδοξον εὐεργέτειαν, καρπῶν
10εὐεργέτειαν καὶ θεῶν ἄνασον Ἶσιν· καὶ τοὺς
11ἐν Ἀγύπτῳ θεοὺς πάντας παραστάναι αὐτῇ
12ἐγ δεξιο̃ν καὶ εὐωμένωι αὐτῆς· ἕνα δὲ
13προελθόντα εἰς τὸ μέσον, οὗ ὑπελάμβανον εἶναι
——
14τὸ μέγεθος πηχῶν \ου ου πηλουπητ../ εἴκοσι ἑνός, τὸν προσαγορευ-
15όμενον Αἰγυπτιστεὶ Ὀνοῦρει, Ἑλληνιστεὶ δὲ
16Ἄρης, πεσόντα ἐπὶ κοιλίαν λέγιν τάδε·
17' ἐλθέ μοι θεὰ θεῶν, κράτος ἔχουσα μέ-
18⟦γιτον⟧ καὶ τῶν ἐν τῷ κόσμωι ἄρχουσα
19καὶ ζώζουσα θεοὺς πάντες, Ἶσιν, καὶ εἵλεως
20γινομένη{ς} ἐπάκουσόν μοι. καθότει προσέταξας,
21διατετήρηκα τὴν χώραν ἀμέμπτως· '

Column iii

1' καὶ ἕως τοῦ νῦν ἐμοῦ τὴν πᾶσαν
2ἐπιμέλειαν πεποιημένου Νεκτον-
3αβὼι τοῦ βασιλέως{ς} ἅμ' αὐτὸς ὑπὸ σοῦ
4κατασταθὶς ἐπὶ{ς} τῆς ἀρχῆς ἠμέληκεν
5τοῦ ἐμοῦ ἱεροῦ καὶ τοῖς ἐμοῖς προσσ̣τάγ-
6γμασιν ἀντιπέπτωκεν. ἐκτὸς τοῦ
7ἑαυτοῦ ἱεροῦ εἰμει καὶ τὰ ἐν τῷ ἀδύτωι <τῶι καλουμένωι Φέρσωι>
8ἱμιτέλεστά ἐστειν διὰ τὴν τοῦ πρωεσ-
9τῶτος κακίαν. ' τὴν δὲ τῶν θεῶν
10ἄνασσον ἀκούσ<ασ>αν τὰ προδεδηλομέν[α]
11μηθὲν ἀποκριθῆναι. εἰδὼν τὸν ὄνιρον
12διεγέρθη
13καὶ προσέταξεν κατὰ σποδὴν ἀποστῖλαι
14\⟦τὴν μεσόγεον⟧/ εἰς Σεβεννῦτον \τὴν μεσόγεον/ ἐπὶ τὸν ἀρχιερῆα καὶ
15τὸν προφήτην τοῦ Ὀνούριος. παραγενο-
16μένων δὲ αὐτῶν εἰς τὴν αὐλήν,
17ἐπυνθάνετο ὁ βασιλεύς,
18τίνα ἐστὶν τὰ ἐνλίποντα ἔργα ἐν τῷ
19ἀδύτωι τῶι καλουμένωι Φέρσωι.
20τῶν δὲ φαμένων· ' τέλος ἔχει πάντα παρὲξ
21τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς τῶν ἐνκολαπτωμένον
22ἱερῶν γραμμάτων ἐν τοῖς λιθικοῖς ἔργοις, '

Column iv

1προσέταξεν κατὰ σπουδὴν γράψας εἰς τὰ λόγι{σ}μα
2ἱερὰ τὰ κατ' Ἄγυπτον ἐπὶ τοὺς ἱερογλύφους.
3παραγενομένων δ' αὐτῶν κατὰ τὸ προστεταγμέ-
4νον, ἐπυνθάνετο ὁ βασιλεύς, τίς ἐστειν ἐν αὐτοῖς
5εὐφυέστατος ὃς δυνήσεται ἐν τάχει ἐπιτελέ-
6σαι τὰ ἐνλίποντα ἔργα ἐν τῷ ἀδύτωι τῷ
7καλουμένῳ [..] Φέρσωι [...]. τούτων διη -
——
8ρηθέντων <εἷ>ς <τῶ>ν ἐξ Ἀφροδίτης πόλεως τοῦ
9Ἀφορδιτοπολίτου ὁ̃ι ὤνομα Πετῆσι{ο}ς,
10πατρὸς δὲ Ἐργῆος, καταστὰς ἔφη δύνασθαι
11τὰ ἔργα πάντα ἐπιτελέσιν ἐν ηλι ἡμέραι<ς>.
12ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἐπυνθάνετο
13ὁ βασιλεύς. οἱ δὲ ἔφασαν ἀληθῆ λέγειν <αὐτὸν> καὶ μὴ
14[εἶ]ναι ἐν τῇ χώραι τοιοῦτον παρευρέσει
15ἡτινειοῦν [....]. διότι τὰ προδεδηλομέ-
16να ἔργα τάξας αὐτῷ μισθοὺς μεγάλους <ἔδωκεν> ἅμα
17το παρεκάλεσεν αὐτὸν εἵνα ἐν ὀλίαις ἡμέραις
18ἐγδιόξῃ τὸ ἔργον καθάπερ καὶ αὐτὸς ἔ<φη ἐ>πιτε-
19λε[ῖ]ν διὰ τῆν τοῦ θεοῦ μβούλησιν. ὁ δὲ Πετῆσι{ο}ς
20κέρματα λαβὼν πολλὰ ἀπῆλθεν εἰς Σεβεννῦτον
21καὶ ἔδοξεν αὐτῷ φύσι ὄντι οἰνοπότῃ
22ῥαθυμῆσαι πρὶν ἢ ἅψασθαι τοῦ ἔργου.

Column v

1καὶ δὴ συνβαίνει αὐτῷ περιπαντοῦντει
2κατὰ τὸ πρὸς νότον μέρος τοῦ ἱεροῦ κατανωῆσαι
3Ἁθύρεψε θυγατέρα ἥτις ἦν καλλίστη τῶν ἴδ[ε]ι
4κ̣α̣τ' ἐκῖνον τὸν <τόπον καλλίστων>.

Commentary

  • 6.

    According to L. Koenen the preceding six lines do not belong to the text.

  • 7.

    According to L. Koenen the scribe left a space of one line and "playfully repeated the name of the hieroglyphist".

  • 14.

    Above line 14 letters unrelated to the main text, perhaps by a second hand.

  • 21.

    The quotation continues uninterruptidely until line 22, col. iii.

  • 6.

    After τῷ ἀδύτωι Wilcken supplemented τῷ καλουμένῳ Φέρσῳ, in accordance with col. iii line 19 and col. iv lines 6-7.

  • 9.

    The rest of the line is left empty.

  • 4.

    Drawing of a man after the end of the written text.

History

  • 2025-09-26T07:07:41-04:00 [james.cowey]: Finalized - Ready.
  • 2025-09-26T06:56:11-04:00 [james.cowey]: Vote - Accept-Straight-to-Finalization - Fine
  • 2022-11-30T07:42:38-05:00 [mgerhardt]: Finalized - Ready.
  • 2022-11-30T07:35:30-05:00 [mgerhardt]: Vote - Accept-Straight-to-Finalization - Fine.
  • 2022-11-30T07:34:59-05:00 [mgerhardt]: Submit - corrected lunate sigma in 3.4.
  • 2022-11-30T07:34:52-05:00 [mgerhardt]: Commit - corrected lunate sigma in 3.4.
  • 2020-09-09T10:43:22-04:00 [james.cowey]: Finalized - Ready. Changed line numbering, added image links. Retained UPZ I 81 and the principal edition. Added a few readings from Koenen's edition in BASP 22.
  • 2020-09-09T10:43:21-04:00 [james.cowey]: Finalized - Ready. Changed line numbering, added image links. Retained UPZ I 81 and the principal edition. Added a few readings from Koenen's edition in BASP 22.
  • 2020-09-09T06:46:27-04:00 [james.cowey]: Vote - Accept-Straight-to-Finalization - Fine
  • 2020-09-09T06:46:27-04:00 [james.cowey]: Vote - Accept-Straight-to-Finalization - Fine
  • 2020-08-27T08:02:34-04:00 [Gr%C3%A9taK%C3%A1das]: Submit - I entered the text and metadata from the printed edition by Koenen (BASP 22, 1985, 176-183) during and after the Digital Papyrology Webinar, SS2020.
  • 2020-08-27T08:02:34-04:00 [Gr%C3%A9taK%C3%A1das]: Submit - I entered the text and metadata from the printed edition by Koenen (BASP 22, 1985, 176-183) during and after the Digital Papyrology Webinar, SS2020.
  • 2020-07-17T10:57:02-04:00 [Gr%C3%A9taK%C3%A1das]: General -
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