Harris Papyrus 500 , or the British Museum Papyrus 10060 (abbreviated as BM 10060 ) - the ancient Egyptian papyrus of the early 19th dynasty (the rule of Seti I or Ramses II ) [1] . Contains the fairy tale “The Doomed Prince ” , the legend “The Capture of Jupe ”, the oldest known ancient Egyptian love lyrics and “The Harper 's Song ” [2] . Named in honor of the collector of antiquities Anthony Harris , in whose collection other papyruses also bear his name. After the death of a collector, papyrus is stored in the British Museum with the number 1872,1101.2.
M.E. Mathieu also points out the old name of the papyrus Harris 500 - “ papyruses Ani and Ra ” [3] .
Content
Description
Papyrus 143.5 × 20.3 cm in size on both sides is written with hieratic writing and visually divided into 8 columns. In the poems scribes made mistakes, leaving gaps. The found intact manuscript was burned as a result of an outbreak of fire in a house in Alexandria in the 19th century. [4] It is believed that the English collector Anthony Harris managed to make a copy before the accident, but its finding is unknown [5] . The first translation of the papyrus was undertaken by the English Egyptologist Charles Goodwin [6] [7] in 1874, the French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero in 1883 [5] .
Face
In the first group: eight poems on behalf of a girl (1, 2, 4, 8) and a young man (3, 5, 6, 7). The original name of this group of poems has not been preserved, and Sigfrid Schott calls them "The Power of Love" [8] .
The second group: Eight poems of similar subjects with introductory parts. The name is dictated by the initial lines: “ Beginning of a sweet song, chosen by the heart coming out of the fields ”. Adjacent to the Harper 's Song .
The third group consists of three poems, each of which begins with the mention of a flower. The latter has been preserved fragmentary [9] .
Reverse
Contains the legend “The Capture of Jupe ” and the fairy tale “The Doomed Prince ” .
The legend occupies the first three columns and tells of the subordination of the rebellious city of Yup to the Egyptian commander Djehuty during the reign of Pharaoh Thutmosis III .
The tale, enclosed in 4-8 columns, tells the story of the Egyptian prince, whom Hathor predicted a sad and unusual end of life. The ending of the story is not preserved.
See also
List of ancient Egyptian papyrus
Notes
- ↑ Lichtheim, M. Ancient Egyptian Literature. - University of California Press, 1973. - Vol. 1. - p. 194.
- ↑ Masson V.M. Dialogue of Civilizations. The development of statehood in the interaction of nomadic societies and settled oases in the Great Silk Road zone. - National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic, 2003. - 212 p.
- ↑ Mathieu ME Ancient Egyptian myths. - State Hermitage, 1940. - p. 79. - 212 p. - ISBN 5458423852 .
- ↑ Baikie, James. Egyptian Papyri and Papyrus-Hunting. - Kessinger Publishing, 2003. - 392 p. - ISBN 0766130592 .
- ↑ 1 2 Maspero, Gaston. El-Shamy, Hasan M .. - Oxford University Press, 2004. - 275 p. - ISBN 019517335X .
- ↑ Goodwin, Charles Wycliffe. Trasactions of the Society of Biblical Archeology . - London, 1874. - T. 3. - p. 349-356.
- ↑ Goodwin, Charles Wycliffe. Records of the Past. - T. 2. - p. 153-160.
- ↑ Schott, Siegfried. Altägyptische Liebeslieder: mit Märchen und Liebesgeschichten. - Artemis, 1952. - 236 p.
- ↑ Lopez, Francisco. Papiro Harris 500 (1997).
Literature
- Blok, HP De Beide Volksverhalen Van Papyrus Harris 500 Verso . ( nid. ) Leiden: Brill, 1925.
- Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature (Eng.), Vol.1, University of California Press, 1973.