Egyptian · AI translation
The Admonitions of Ipuwer (pLeiden I 344)
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.
1.206–1.213
jw =j ḏr[.kwj] rʾ-sj
I am overcome because of it.
ḥꜣ r =f jri̯.n =j ḫrw =j m [tꜣ] ꜣ,t nḥm =f wj m-ꜥ wḫd{,t} =j jrr.w jm =st
Would that I had raised my voice at that moment, that it might have saved me from the pain I am in!
jw ms [ḫnt,j] ḏsr šdi̯ zẖꜣ.pl =f
Indeed, the sacred [chamber]: its writings are removed.
sḥꜣw.w s,t štꜣ,w wn,t
The place of secrets that was [hidden] is laid bare.
jw ms ḥkꜣ,w sḥꜣw.w
Indeed, magic is laid bare.
šm.pl sḫn.pl snḥꜣ.w{t} ḥr sḫꜣ[.t] […] s[w]ḫꜣ(?) st jn r[m]ṯ.pl
Šm-spells and sḫn-spells are made ineffective through being remembered [...] [...] by people.
jw ms wn ḫꜣ[.pl] šdi̯ wp,t.pl =s[n]
Indeed, the offices are open, their records removed.
ḫpr r[m]ṯ.pl ḏ,t m nb[.pl] ⸢ḏ,t⸣
Serfs have become lords of serfs.
Translator's note. Line 206: ḏr.kwj, 'overcome', is uncertain. Line 209: 'hidden' is not in the text, which has only wn.t 'that was'; the bracket marks a supplied word. Line 211: šm and sḫn are kinds of spell or rite, otherwise uncertain; snḥꜣ, rendered 'made ineffective', is uncertain; the line has a gap.
The whole original: the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (open pLeiden I 344 Recto).