Volume 1
The demotic magical papyrus of London and Leiden / edited by F. Ll. Griffith and Herbert Thompson.
- Date:
- 1904-1909
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The demotic magical papyrus of London and Leiden / edited by F. Ll. Griffith and Herbert Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![4. mn [ky ?] n‘’m-y n wm te-y sn zz-y te-y sii he-t a g'wm^ Oyt a w' tw rs ty 'h-y 5. ne ’S-t [lk]-s e-s ste ne Nb-ht Ik-s e-s s-wze ne p XVI n Ne-tbevv’W ne pe(?) w' n nht 6. n ntr n[e p ? 3 ?]65 n ntr hms-t a hry a wm n p rt n t sh-t n h'p pe wr nte-w ste n p g'wm' 7. n zz[-f n p] sr n ’S-t n zz-f n mn a ms mn n n g'wm' n grh n n g^wm' n mre-t p sn zz py srrf 8. py hmm [n n g']wm'-w n ne ’r . . . . n rt-f ste a bl n zz-f n mn a^ms mn ’h nhe n m' t 9. n sp VII [nte-k th]s t-t-f he*t-f rt-f nte-k mt-t ar-f Probably the word here, with divine determinative, is different, and may well represent ‘ the Nile.’ The same group occurs in Pap. In- singer 16/21. pe wr is difficult, ‘ belonging to the Great,’ or ‘ son of the Great,’ or ‘ my Great one.’ d.p&ei: cf, note 1/20. 1. 5. ne\ probably fut. neg. une. XVIn Ne-tbeiv-w : cf. 2/9 note; perhaps 01 yiyai/rer of Perl. Pap. (Parthey), II. 102. There were also the 16 cubits of the Nile, and according to one account the body of Osiris was torn into sixteen pieces, Rec. tr., iii. p. 56, v. p. 86 ; other texts give fourteen parts (Plutarch) or seventeen (Rhind. bil. i. p. 3). 1. 6. [3]65 gods, i. e. one for each day of the year. Cf. the 365](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29003519_0001_0218.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
