- Museum number
- EA10756,13
- Title
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Object: Papyrus Ramesseum 3
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Object: Fragments of Papyrus Ramesseum 1
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Object: Fragment of Papyrus Ramesseum 4
- Description
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P. Ramesseum 3, Frame 13. Papyrus written on the recto and on the verso in hieratic script in red and black ink. The recto contains a magico-medical text for mother and child and also for the eyes and fragments of P. Ramesseum 1 and 4. On the verso there are some dated accounts with ruled lines. The text is written in vertical lines. This frame contains forty-nine fragments which appear in the following order from top left to bottom right: Frag. 22, Frag. 26, Frag. 46, three unidentified, Frag. 40, one unidentified fragment (possibly P. Ramesseum 1), two unidentified, P. Ramesseum 1 Frag. 41, one unidentified, Frag. 37, Frag. 52, Frag. 39, A 5, Frag. 55, Frag. 41, A 31, A 22, Frag. 21, Frag. 53, Frag. 69, Frag. 58, P. Ramesseum 4 Frag. 8, A 21, Frag. 50, Frag. 8, one unidentified (possibly P. Ramesseum 1), P. Ramesseum 1 Giii 1-2 (centre right), B 11, Frag. 59, one unidentified, Frag. 33, one unidentified, Frag. 33, P. Ramesseum 1 Frag 15, one unidentified, Frag. 30, P. Ramesseum 1 Bii 14 (upside down), one unidentified, Frag. 32, one unidentified, P. Ramesseum 1 Frag. 44, one unidentified, P. Ramesseum 1 Frag. 27, Frag. 51, one unidentified and Frag. 54.
Regarding the accounts on the verso, Gardiner proposes that 'the subject is deliveries of various kinds of grain to the Residence, to a storehouse (mXr), and to the houses of certain individual persons, and that these transactions are dated in the sixth year of some king unknown' (Gardiner, The Ramesseum Papyri, 1955, 17).
The papyrus is part of the collection of papyri found with a bundle of pens in a chest from a plundered late 13th dynasty tomb under the Ramesseum, apparently belonging to someone like a lector priest. Two of the papyri from the chest are in the Egyptian Museum Berlin (P. Ramesseum A and D); the objects are in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge and the Manchester Museum.
The papyri are very fragile, apparently due to dampness in the tomb-shaft. This papyrus was mounted on sheets of gelatin by Hugo Ibscher.
- Dimensions
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Length: 31 centimetres (frame)
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Width: 18.50 centimetres (frame)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- P. Ramesseum 3 lines A 5, A 21, A 22, A 31, B 11; Fragments 8, 21, 22, 26, 30, 32, 33, 37, 39, 40, 41, 46, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 58, 59, 69; P. Ramesseum 1 lines Bii 14, Giii 1-2; Fragments 8, 15, 27, 41, 44; P. Ramesseum 4 Fragment 8, fifteeen unidentified fragments.
A. H. Gardiner, The Ramesseum Papyri (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1955), 9, 17.
J. W. B. Barns, Five Ramesseum Papyri (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1956), 15-23, pl. 10 (A 5), pl. 11, (A 21-22, A 31), pl. 12 (B 11), pl. 14 (Fragment 8), pl.15 (Fragments 21, 22, 26, 30 32, 33, 37, 39, 40, 41, 46, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 58, 59, 69), pl. 3 (P. Ramesseum 1 Bii 14), pl. 5 (P. Ramesseum 1 Giii 1-2; Fragment 8), pl. 6 (P. Ramesseum 1 Fragments 15, 27, 41, 44), pl. 20 (P. Ramesseum 4 Fragment 8), pl. 24-25 (verso).
This papyrus is being studied by Pierre Meyrat (Geneva).
S. Quirke, The Administration of Egypt in the Late Middle Kingdom. The Hieratic Documents (New Malden: Sia Publishing 1990), 188-9.
W. Westendorf, Handbuch der altägyptischen Medizin (Handbuch der Orientalistik Abt. 1, 36; Leiden, Boston and Köln: Brill 1999), 11-15.
R.-A. Jean and A.-M. Loyrette, 'À propos des textes médicaux des papyrus du Ramesseum Nos III et IV: I La contraception', Memnonia 12-13 (2002), 83-115.
R.-A. Jean and A.-M. Loyrette, 'À propos des textes médicaux des papyrus du Ramesseum Nos III et IV: II La gynécologie', Memnonia 15 (2004), 67-91.
On the conservation of the papyri: B. Leach, 'A conservation history of the Ramesseum Papyri', JEA 92 (2006), 225-40.
On the tomb: R. B. Parkinson, Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories (Chichester and Malden: Wiley-Blackwell 2009), 138-72.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Papyrus Survey:
Condition Details:
Papyrus: displaced fragments, fragile
Black ink
Red ink
Backed: gelatin (degraded, cockled)
Transferred to horizontal storage 3 JAN 95
Mount Details:
Sandwich: glass
Binding: cloth
Binding: 3m scotch tape no.810
Object Priority: D
Mount Priority: A
Overall Condition: E
Curatorial condition comment:
poor
- Acquisition date
- 1956
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA10756,13
- Registration number
- 1956,0714.5.13
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Frame.13
