Egyptian · AI translation
pFlorenz PSI inv. I 73 + pCarlsberg 463
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.
1.26–1.32
ḏd s [rʾ] [pn] [fꜣi̯(?)] ⸢ꜥ.du⸣.wj.pl =f šmi̯ =f m nʾ,t wꜥb nbj,t n,tj sšnj n sḫ,t [m] [ḏr,t] =[f] […]
A man says [this] [spell], [lifting(?)] his arms, as he goes in a city pure of flame, which is sšnj of the field, [in] [his] [hand] [...]
[…] ⸢sḥrjw⸣ ḫꜣ,tj.pl ⸢ẖr,j⸣ [ꜥb,w] [n] ⸢jꜣd,t⸣ rnp,t mꜣꜣ nʾ,t ẖr,j ꜥb,w n jꜣd,t rnp,t
[...] who drive off the slaughterers, who are under [the ꜥbw] [of] the pestilence of the year; seeing a city that is under the ꜥbw of the pestilence of the year.
jr mꜣꜣ =j nʾ,t ẖr,j ꜥb,w ⸢ḫpr⸣ [jꜣd,t] [rnp,t] [jm] =[s] […]
If I see a city under the ꜥbw, [the pestilence] [of the year] happens [in] [it] [...]
[…] ⸢sby⸣ n ṯꜣw tp =s m p,t pḥ,wj =s mn m nʾ,t twy js wn [j]ḫ,t ḥr-tp sby [twy]
[...] a column of wind, its top in the sky and its base fixed in this city, as if there were something on top of [this] column.
[…] ꜥrw [jw] [nʾ,t] ⸢twy⸣ nḏ,t ꜥꜣ sp-2
[...] ascended, [while] this [city] was very, very small.
js ꜥrw.kw jw nʾ,t twy wr.t nʾ,t dfj n,tj m p⸢f⸣ gs […]
For I had ascended while this city was great; the city of dfj which is on that side [...]
[…] [nʾ,t] ⸢twy⸣ n,tj [ẖr] ⸢ꜥb,w⸣ jw dšr jrw,tw hrw m nʾ,t twy ẖr ꜥb,w
[...] this [city] that is [under] the ꜥbw, while the appearance of the day is red in this city under the ꜥbw.
Translator's note. ꜥbw is unexplained here; from the context perhaps a cloud, haze or pall of smoke over a city. jꜣd,t rnp,t is the seasonal pestilence. Line 26: nʾ,t wꜥb nbj,t ('a city pure of flame') and sšnj n sḫ,t are uncertain. Line 29: sby, rendered 'column', is uncertain. Line 30: nḏ,t, 'small', may mean 'ground fine'. Line 31: dfj is unexplained, perhaps a name. Line 32: jrw,tw is taken as 'appearance, form'.
The whole original: the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (open pFlorenz PSI inv. I 73 + pCarlsberg 463).