Egyptian · AI translation
Papyrus Deir el-Medineh 1
English for the 2 passages of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.
1.27–1.33
jr sfḫ nb.t jr ḏww nb.t n,tj j{m}[w] =sn r jꜣy [r] [mn] [msi̯.n] [mn],t ḫsf.tw =w r pꜣ n,tj jw [=sn] r jy r =f
As for every sfḫ and every evil thing that would come against [N born of] N, they shall be warded off from the one against whom they would come.
ḏd.tw rʾ pn r msḏr […]
This spell is to be recited at the ear [...]
di̯.w r ḫḫwj =f
placed at his throat.
m-mj,t[j]t nmj n,tj m zẖꜣ m mnḥ{t}
Likewise the nmj that is in writing on mnḥ,
di̯.w r ḫḫwj =f
placed at his throat.
m-šs-{nw-}mꜣꜥ ḥḥ [n] [zp]
Truly effective, a million [times].
[…] ḫpr nb m-ꜥ rʾ n wn ḫtm
[...] everything that happens, through the spell for opening what is sealed.
Translator's note. mn and mn,t are the placeholders 'N (male)' and 'N (female)' for the patient and his mother. sfḫ, literally 'loosing', is uncertain here. nmj may be the same as the nmjꜥ addressed in the preceding context, perhaps a being in the sky. mnḥ may be wax or papyrus. Line 27: the last clause is literally 'against the one that they will come against him'; uncertain.
1.55–1.58
mḏꜣ,t n,[j].t pꜣ gs-mꜣꜥ
Book of the temple [of the head].
jr ⸢ḏꜣḏꜣ⸣ [n] [mn]{t} msi̯.n mn,t ḏꜣḏꜣ Wsjr-Wnn-nfr [di̯] […] [n] [ꜥrꜥr,t] [nṯri̯] [ḥr] [ḏꜣḏ]ꜣ =f j{ꜣ}[w] =sn ḥr bši̯ ns[r],t r [di̯.t] [wjꜣ] [=k] [ḏꜣḏꜣ] [n] [mn{t}] [msi̯.n] mn,t mj Wsjr
As for the head of N born of N, it is the head of Osiris-Wennefer, [on which] [...] [the divine uraeus] [is placed]; they are spitting fire, so as to [make] [your] [bark(?)] [the head] [of N born of N] like Osiris.
jr tm =k wj[ꜣ] ⸢=k⸣ [mꜣꜥ] [n] mn⸢{t}⸣ [msi̯].n ⸢mn⸣[,t] [jw] =j r ḏꜣfj bꜣ =k jw =j r sḥtm =k jw =j r sḫr ⸢=k⸣ [___] jm =k j⸢w⸣ ⸢=j⸣ ⸢r⸣ di̯.⸢t⸣ k[fꜥ.tw] =k[{wj}] nm[_]
If you do not [...] (wjꜣ) yourself [truly] [for] N born of N, I will burn your ba, I will destroy you, I will fell you [...] in you, I will cause you to be [seized] ... [...]
jr mntk nṯr [jw] [=j] [r] [w]hꜣnꜣ pꜣ⸢y⸣ =k ḫn,w jw =j r sꜣsꜣ pꜣy =k jsj n,tj tw≡k m-ẖnw =f jw =j r ⸢tm⸣ [di̯.t] […] [r] [tm] [di̯.t] šbn =k bꜣ ⸢j⸣q[r] r tm di̯.t ꜥq =k m šms,w [Ḥr,w]
If you are a god, I will overturn your abode, I will smash your tomb in which you are, I will not [allow] [...], [so as] [not] [to let] you mingle as an excellent ba, so as not to let you enter in the following of [Horus].
Translator's note. mn/mn,t are placeholders for the patient and his mother. Line 55: gs-mꜣꜥ, 'the true side', is unexplained. Lines 56-57 are heavily restored; wjꜣ (restored in 56, partly preserved in 57) is of uncertain meaning, and 'bark' is only a guess. Line 57 ends in a broken word nm[...]. Line 58: whꜣnꜣ is taken as whn 'overturn'; ḫnw 'abode' and jsj 'tomb' are probable readings.
The whole original: the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (open Papyrus Deir el-Medineh 1).