®|°M PAPYRUS D'ORBINEY GIFT OF Publisher &8 7 =^£ 1 •■ EGYPTIAN CLASSICS I * ' . * PAPYRUS DORBINEY (British Museum") The Hieroglyphic Transcription n>m;i> by CHARLES E. MOLDENKE THE ELBINORE PRESS WATCHUNG, N. J. 1900 §>- ) °1 C Explanatory. Some portions of the text of the papyrus are either dam- aged or completely destroyed. All such passages, words, or letters are enclosed in brackets, except where a portion of the characters is still visible. In line 168 of the papyrus a feu- characters have been retouched in modern ink and are unde- cipherable. An exact copy of this is given on page 48. All words written in red ink by the Egyptian scribe are underlined, and all his mistakes arc scrupulously retained. The marginal numbers refer to page and line of the original, while the numbers in the text are consecutive, to facilitate reference. Bibliography of the Papyrus. I. Text. S. Birch, Select Papyri in the Hieratic Character from the Collections of the British Museum, Part If, Plates IX to XIX, London 1860. ( Exact lithographed copyf I L. Reinish, Aegptische Chrestomathie, Part II, Plates 22 to 40, Vienna 1875. | Reduced copy in black only. ) O. von Lemm, Aegyptische Lesestucke, Vol. I, pg. 85 to 100, Leipsic 1883. (Autographed transcription.) E. M. Coemans, Manuel de la Langue Egyptienne, pg. 95ft". Paris 1887. (Autographed transcription. ) W. N. Grolf, Etude sur le Papyrus d'Orbiney, Paris 1888. (Autographed transcription, translation, notes, and glossary. ) E. A. W. Budge, An Egyptian Reading Book, pg. 1 to 25, London 1888. (Transcription in type.) C. E. Moldenke, The Tale of the Two Brothers, Watchung, N.J. 189S. {Text in Hieratic type, printed in black and red, transcription in Hieroglyphic type, translation, notes, and glossary. ) fi 4 ft 4 £ 4 II. Translation. E. de Rouge, Notice sur un Manuscrit Egyptien en Ecriture Hieratique [from "Revue Archeologique," Series I, Vol. VIII], Paris 1852. (Part of the translation and notes.) E. de Rouge, Notice sur im Manuscrit Egyptien en Ecriture Hieratique [from "L'Athemeurn Franyais,'' First Year], Paris 1852. (Translation and notes. I C. W. Goodwin, Hieratic Papyri, in "Cambridge Essays," 1858, pg. 232 to 239. P. LePage Renouf, On the Decipherment and Interpretation of Dead Languages, London 1863. F. Chabas, Etude analytique d'un Texte difficile, in "Me- langes Egyptologiques," Series 11, 1864, pg. 182 to 230. G. Maspero, Le Conte des deux Freres, in "Revue des Cours litteraires," 1871, pg. 780 tf. G. Maspero, Le Conte des deux Freres, in "Revue Archeolo- gique," Series II, .March 1878. P. LePage Renouf , 'I he Tale of the Two Brothers, in "Rec- ords of the Past," Vol. II, pg. 137 to 152. G. Maspero, Le Conte des deux Freres, in "Les Contes popu- lates de 1'Egypte ancienne," pg. 1 to 28, Paris 1882. F. Cabas, Choix de Textes Egyptieu.s [edited by P. J. de Hor- rackj, pg. 10 to 21, Paris 1883. F. L. Griffith, Notes on the Text of the d'Orbiney Papyrus, in "Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, " Vol. XI, pg. 161 to 172 and 414 to 416, London 1889. The d'Orbiney Papyrus was acquired by purchase from Madame d'Orbiney in 1857. PAPYRUS DUKBINEY PAPYRUS D'ORBINEV, ra aaaaaa (^ Ci O rk AAAAA\ _« Ul * > lli AAAAAA 1 tl^ J1' 1 * a @ e ' \ I I ]LU AAAAAA CEDf] (2 •: % ^ III AAAAAA AAAAA/v kJ5k*'vftl'^T^IlSJ >! v>w_ W~ AAAAAA ^ L AAAAAA MflAtoJ \ SA'^vaaa^X (J U U i PA P Yli US V OK BINE Y. [3-6 4 L V A -* w ' i JJ AAAAAA AAAAAA TJ O Ci ^^-^ SAAAA L 2 $ ^-^ £S £_J U =C___> J I n a AAAAAA 5 AAAAAA £ AAAAAA [0]| ^ I I I o \\ ^v3 ®r ? [*JM « I I I AAAAAA @ ra [0] n 6 tkPrjx •^ £$ . 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