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OTES ON THE STORY OF SINUHE
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NOTES ON THE STORY OF SINUHE
(sixth article)
BY
Alan H. Gardinkr
III
the duplicate texts
The story of Sinuhe has incidentally afforded striking confirmation of the proverb
that it never rains but it pours. M. Maspero's édition first made known M. Golé-
nischeffs papyrus fragments (G). The important Ramesseum papyrus R foliowed
close at the heels of G, and laid upon M. Maspero the unpleasant necessity of re-
modelling part of his work when it had already gone to press. Before the appear-
ance of my photographie facsimile other fragments of R emerged, and a few more
annoying scraps have since, I regret to say, corne to light so as to render my book in-
complète. A few words on a Berlin ostracon (no. 12341, published Hierat. Pap. a. d.
kôn. Muséum, III, 42) were not at my disposai when I dealt with the passage to which
they refer in the Recueil de Traoaux. Two other ostraca discovered by me in the
Berlin and Pétrie collections respectively could fortunately be utilized for my com-
mentary, while some other tiny fragments recently found among Professor Petrie's
ostraca could not be so used. At the last moment, when the manuscript of this por-
tion of my work was already in the liands of the printer, news came from Berlin of
yet -two more ostraca found in the course of this year's excavations (1913) at Der el
Medineh. I am deeply indebted to Dr. Moller, not only for providing me with an-
notated photographs of thèse, but also for generously permitting me to publish them
here.
A new list of Mss., replacing that contained in my former work, is necessitated
by thèse récent accessions to our knowledge.
The Mss. of the taie now known are as follows :—
B. —■ Pap. Berlin 3022, for ail information concerning which see Gardiner, Die Er-
zàhlung des Sinuhe, p. 4.
A. — The Amherst fragments, really part of B; see op. cit., p. 5.
R. — The Ramesseum papyrus, see op. cit., p. 3-4. More recently some new frag-
ments have corne to light, containing additions to R98-101 and R1U7-111; un-
published hitherto, but incorporated in the text below.
G.— M. Golénischeff's papyrus, now in Moscow; see op. cit., p. 5. Collated by me
from a photograph in the Berlin Muséum.
C — The Cairo ostracon 27419, see op. cit., p. 5. The original has been collated by me.
KECUKIf., XXXVI. — TROISIÈME SKU., T. IV 3
17
NOTES ON THE STORY OF SINUHE
(sixth article)
BY
Alan H. Gardinkr
III
the duplicate texts
The story of Sinuhe has incidentally afforded striking confirmation of the proverb
that it never rains but it pours. M. Maspero's édition first made known M. Golé-
nischeffs papyrus fragments (G). The important Ramesseum papyrus R foliowed
close at the heels of G, and laid upon M. Maspero the unpleasant necessity of re-
modelling part of his work when it had already gone to press. Before the appear-
ance of my photographie facsimile other fragments of R emerged, and a few more
annoying scraps have since, I regret to say, corne to light so as to render my book in-
complète. A few words on a Berlin ostracon (no. 12341, published Hierat. Pap. a. d.
kôn. Muséum, III, 42) were not at my disposai when I dealt with the passage to which
they refer in the Recueil de Traoaux. Two other ostraca discovered by me in the
Berlin and Pétrie collections respectively could fortunately be utilized for my com-
mentary, while some other tiny fragments recently found among Professor Petrie's
ostraca could not be so used. At the last moment, when the manuscript of this por-
tion of my work was already in the liands of the printer, news came from Berlin of
yet -two more ostraca found in the course of this year's excavations (1913) at Der el
Medineh. I am deeply indebted to Dr. Moller, not only for providing me with an-
notated photographs of thèse, but also for generously permitting me to publish them
here.
A new list of Mss., replacing that contained in my former work, is necessitated
by thèse récent accessions to our knowledge.
The Mss. of the taie now known are as follows :—
B. —■ Pap. Berlin 3022, for ail information concerning which see Gardiner, Die Er-
zàhlung des Sinuhe, p. 4.
A. — The Amherst fragments, really part of B; see op. cit., p. 5.
R. — The Ramesseum papyrus, see op. cit., p. 3-4. More recently some new frag-
ments have corne to light, containing additions to R98-101 and R1U7-111; un-
published hitherto, but incorporated in the text below.
G.— M. Golénischeff's papyrus, now in Moscow; see op. cit., p. 5. Collated by me
from a photograph in the Berlin Muséum.
C — The Cairo ostracon 27419, see op. cit., p. 5. The original has been collated by me.
KECUKIf., XXXVI. — TROISIÈME SKU., T. IV 3