The Prisse Papyrus - A Collection of Wisdom Texts
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Directors
- Chloé Ragazzoli
- Serge Rosmorduc
- Nicolas Souchon
Description
The aim of the “The Prisse Papyrus - A Collection of Wisdom Texts” application is to provide a digital reconstruction aligned with presentation and translation into French, English and Arabic of the Prisse papyrus.
This papyrus, now kept at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Département des Manuscrits, Egyptien 183-194), was cut into twelve parts and placed under glass in the 19th century. Written under the 12th Egyptian dynasty (1991-1781 BC) in hieratic (an ancient Egyptian cursive script), it presented a collection of three texts, of which only two have survived to this day, the first the “Teaching for Gemnikaï” in part, the second the “Teaching for Ptahhotep” in its entirety. These texts, known as “teachings” (sebayt in ancient Egyptian), encoded in the form of maxims the life, ethical and social standards to which every individual should conform.
The application developed using XML-TEI, XSLT, XQuery, HTML, CSS, JSON and JavaScript, reconstructs the papyrus as it would have appeared to the ancient reader. It also provides access to the hieroglyphic transcription of the hieratic text, its transliteration and translation into French, English and Arabic, as well as a reading out of these texts in French by an actor. It allows to browse the papyrus verse by verse or select verse to see their transcription and translation. Finally, it also allows to search the papyrus by verse number.
The XML-TEI data and all the files making up the application are available online at GitLab.