As it joins directly to the fragment in Reykjavik, scholars can now reconstitute and read a broken column of text. It also includes the name of a major character from the Inaros stories. While the fragment itself is only a few inches long, it is inscribed in the same Demotic Egyptian language used in the other pieces of the manuscript. “I wrote to him and said, ‘I think you may recognize this piece,’” Dieleman said. Later, when Dieleman was examining Catholic University’s collection, he recognized the fragment immediately.
The Xerox did not say where the fragment was held, but Ryholt had been told that it might be in the D.C. Relying on the Xerox copy, Ryholt had recently identified the piece as joining similar fragments in Reykjavik, Iceland, and Berlin. After his death, Inaros became an Egyptian folk hero comparable to King Arthur, with many fictional tales written about his heroism for centuries to come.ĭieleman first became aware of the possibility that a papyrus fragment could be in the area thanks to his colleague Professor Kim Ryholt of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, who sent him a 30-year-old Xerox copy of the fragment piece. The largest parts of the library collection are housed today in Copenhagen at the Carlsberg Papyrus Collection, but additional pieces of papyri manuscripts are scattered around the world.Īccording to Dieleman, the fragment found at Catholic University is part of a scroll inscribed with a story about the Egyptian Prince Inaros, who rebelled against the Assyrian occupiers around 665 BC. Among the many documents found in the collection are texts about rituals, medical practices, and works of literature. The Tebtunis Temple Library, which was excavated in the town of Tebtunis in Egypt in the early 20th century, contains numerous papyri written in the Demotic Egyptian and Koine Greek languages, dating back to the second century AD. Thanks to his years of research in the field of Egyptology, Dieleman was able to identify a papyrus fragment from the University’s collection as a small piece of a larger papyrus scroll from the so-called Tebtunis Temple Library, an important collection of ancient manuscripts that is beginning to shed new light on the world of Ancient Egypt. Jacco Dieleman, a research associate professor in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages, recently made a startling discovery while examining artifacts housed within Catholic University’s Semitics/ICOR collections.
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