Egyptian · AI translation
The Teaching of Hardjedef (oMünchen 3400) 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.
AI translation. Translated by Claude (Anthropic) from the original beside it, then checked against the original by a second AI (Codex, from OpenAI); objections that held up were corrected. No specialist has reviewed it. Read it as a plain working version, not an authoritative translation. How these were made 1.1 ḥꜣ,t-ꜥ-m sbꜣ,yt jri̯.t.n [j]r,[j]-pꜥ,t ḥꜣ,t[j]-ꜥ zꜣ-nsw Ḥr-ḏḏ≡f n zꜣ =f mnꜥ{t} =[f] Ꜣw[{,t}-jb]-Rꜥ [rn] =[f] [ḏd] =[f]
Beginning of the teaching which the hereditary noble, count and king's son Hardjedef made for his son, [his] ward, Auibre [by] [name]; [he] [says]:
Translator's note. The final words rn=f ḏd=f are restored.
The whole original: the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (open 〈01. 〉oMünchen 3400).
Source and licence Translated by Claude (claude-opus-5-5, Anthropic) from the library's urn:egy:tla:sawlit:01-omunchen-3400:translit, from the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (2018), in Simon Schweitzer's AED-TEI (CC BY-SA 4.0), one English line for each line of the original. Only some passages are translated so far: those that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and the demons-and-angels study cite.
CC BY-SA 4.0, as its source requires: credit the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (2018), in Simon Schweitzer's AED-TEI and this AI translation, and share adaptations under the same licence.
This translation is egy_tla_sawlit_01-omunchen-3400.json in the downloadable collection, which also records each objection the review raised and what was done about it.
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