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pBerlin 9010

English for the 1 passage 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.

1.3–1.8

1.3

[…] ḥm,t =f ẖrd.pl =f jš,t ⸢=f⸣ nb m ẖnw =f r shru̯.t ẖrd.pl […] n[j].w Wsr pn jm jri̯ ꜥꜣ r ꜥꜣꜣ =f [jri̯] šr [r] šrr =f

[...] his wife, his children and all his property within it, in order to settle the children [...] of this Weser there, treating the great according to his greatness, [treating] the small [according to] his smallness.

1.4

ḏd.n Ṯꜣw pn jwt-zp jri̯ sw [j]t[j] =f m bw nb

This Tjau said: 'His father never made it anywhere.'

1.5

jr jni̯ Sbk-ḥtp[,w] pn jr,w 3 jqr.w n[j].w nḫt [ḥr] [=sn] jri̯.t =sn bꜣ,w =k r =f nṯr mj n,tt jri̯.n =t js zẖꜣ[,w] pn ḫft ḏd.w Wsr pn [jm]

If this Sobekhotep brings three excellent witnesses who are strong [about] [it], they shall perform 'your power against him, O god' that this document was indeed made according to what this Weser said [there].

1.6

wnn m ẖnw =f Sbk-ḥtp[,w] pn jni̯.n =f jr,w 3 pn n[j].w ḏd md[w],t tn r-gs =sn

It shall be within his [possession], that of this Sobekhotep, once he has brought these three witnesses who state this matter alongside them.

1.7

[j]sk Sbk-ḥtp[,w] pn m wnm n sb[j]n =f

Now this Sobekhotep is in the right concerning his sbjn(?).

1.8

jr nfr-n jnn =f jr,w 3 ḏd.w md[w],t tn r-gs =sn n mn [j]ḫ,t nb[.t] jm =f n.t Wsr pn j:mn m zꜣ =f šps-nswt [j]m[,j]-rʾ-jꜥꜣ[,w] Ṯꜣw

If he does not bring three witnesses who state this matter alongside them, nothing at all of this Weser's shall remain with him, but it shall remain with his son, the noble of the king, overseer of interpreters, Tjau.

Translator's note. A legal decision on a disputed document. jr,w, rendered 'witnesses', is uncertain. Line 5: bꜣ,w=k r=f nṯr, 'your power against him, O god', seems to be the wording of an oath; the construction is unclear. Line 7: m wnm n sb[j]n=f is obscure; sbjn is unexplained. Line 8: jmj-rʾ-jꜥꜣw may also be 'overseer of foreign troops'.

The whole original: the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (open pBerlin 9010).