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Papyrus Edwin Smith

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.

1.10

[jr] nw ḏḏ.w wꜥb.w.pl-Sḫm,t zwn[,w] nb ḏr,t[j].du{.pl} =f ḏbꜥ.pl =f [ḥr] [tp] [ḥr] [mḥꜣ] ḥr ḏr,t[j].du{.pl} ḥr s,t jb ḥr rd.du ḫꜣ[ꜣ] =[f] [n] ḥꜣ,tj

[As for] the measuring when any wab-priest of Sekhmet or any physician places his hands or his fingers [on the head], [on the back of the head], on the hands, on the place of the heart, or on the feet, [he] measures [for] the heart.

Translator's note. nw is taken as 'measuring' (or 'time'), and ḏḏ.w as 'places'; the construction is uncertain.

1.162

jr ꜥq.t m-rw,tj ṯꜣw pw n[,j] nṯr n[,j] rw,tj m[w]t rʾ-pw

As for 'entering from outside': it is the breath of an outside god, or of a dead person.

The whole original: the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (open Papyrus Edwin Smith).