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    From Crypt to Cult – Pyramid Texts

    on Middle Kingdom Mortuary Stelae


    Rune Nyord, Emory University

    Substitution Workshop, FU Berlin 24–25 May 2019 rune.nyord@emory.edu


    Facsimile of Book of the Dead judgment scene from Denon 1802: pl. 141 (Book of the Dead of
    Wahibre, now P. Bibliotheque Nationale 112–117)
    Coffin Texts and other decorative elements
    in the coffin of Imeni (12th Dynasty,
    Thebes).

    Pyramid Texts in the crypt of King Unas (5th


    Dynasty, Saqqara).
    Roman Jakobson’s two semiotic axes

    Forward flow of words


    Combination
    (syntagmatic axis)

    Word choice

    Selection
    (paradigmatic axis)
    Stela of Montuwoser (detail) (12th Dynasty, Abydos). MMA 12.184.
    Late MK stelae with Pyramid Texts
    Siglum Provenance / Date Owner Location Texts
    Leiden 24 Abydos? / Dyn. 13 Amenemhatseneb Leiden 24 (AP.35) PT 247

    C20093 Abydos / Dyn. 13 Seneb Cairo CG 20093 PT 249

    C20520 Abydos / Dyn. 13 Nehy Cairo CG 20520 PT 204–210

    Tod1C Tod / Dyn. 13 Mentuwoser Cairo CG 20762 PT 77; 81


    C20829 Saqqara / Dyn. 12 Neferher Cairo CG 20829 ‘Medley’
    St. Petersburg Unknown / Dyn. 12– Ihy St. Petersburg PT 270
    2958 13 2958
    Louvre C 290 Unknown / Dyn. 12? Ipi Louvre C 290 PT 25

    Parma A Abydos / Dyn. 13 Mentunakht Parma Museum stela PT 301


    no. 178
    Siamon Abusir? / Dyn. 13 Siamon Trento, Castello del PT *721,
    Buonconsiglio 248
    Categories of Pyramid Texts spells
    Offering spells
    25, 77, 81, 204–210, *721 [>CT 516], BD 148

    Hymn to Min-Amun
    301

    Manifestation spells
    247, 248, 249, ‘medley’ from CG 20829

    Ferryman spell
    270
    Offering spells

    Wall fragment from tomb chapel, Cairo CG 20762, Tod, first half of Dyn. 13

    PT 77 Tabular offering list

    PT 81
    CT 788

    BD 148 PT 204, 205, 207, 209, 210


    ‘Spell for ‘Spell for making the offering
    provisioning the table flourish’
    westerners’

    Stela, Cairo CG 20520, Abydos (ANOC 32.1), early first half of Dyn. 13
    Categories of Pyramid Texts spells
    Offering spells
    25, 77, 81, 204–210, *721 [>CT 516], BD 148

    Hymn to Min-Amun
    301

    Manifestation spells
    247, 248, 249, ‘medley’ from CG 20829

    Ferryman spell
    270
    Lines 1–4:

    Ḥtp-dj-nsw ‘Hail to you, Min-Amun,


    lord of the shrine!
    Come, that you may
    travel <to> your
    marshes and your
    mangroves of gold,
    PT turquoise and lapis
    Hymn to (Min-) lazuli, and that you may
    301
    Horus smell the perfume of
    (end)
    Shesmet. May you place
    for yourself the ka of
    the king beside you
    like the White Crown
    which is on your head.’

    Stela, Parma 178, Abydos


    (ANOC 67.3), first quarter
    of Dyn. 13
    Categories of Pyramid Texts spells
    Offering spells
    25, 77, 81, 204–210, *721 [>CT 516], BD 148

    Hymn to Min-Amun
    301

    Manifestation spells
    247, 248, 249, ‘medley’ from CG 20829

    Ferryman spell
    270
    PT 249:

    Recitation: May N appear as Nefertem, as


    the lotus at the nostril of Re daily, and may
    he come forth from the Akhet, so that the
    gods become pure at seeing him.
    Address to the living

    Ḥtp-dj-nsw-formula

    PT 249

    Stela, Cairo CG 20093, Abydos (ANOC 49.1), first half of Dyn. 13


    What are spells PT 247–249 for?
    Dyn. 12:
    ‘Not letting the heka-power of a man be taken
    away from him in the necropolis’ (Title of CT 349
    [<PT 247])

    Dyn. 18:
    ‘Spell for causing the akh to emerge from the
    gate in the sky’ (Title of PT 247 / BD 174 [<PT
    247–250] in the tomb of Nakhtmin [TT 87])
    PT 249:

    Recitation: May N appear as Nefertem, as


    PT the lotus at the nostril of Re, so that the
    249 gods become pure at seeing him every day.

    Detail of west wall of tomb of


    Menkheperreseneb (TT 112), Dyn. 18.
    Davies 1933, pl. 27.
    Ideal biography
    Address to the living
    Pyramid Texts phrases
    Offering list

    Translation of lines 2–6:


    ‘For your local gods to love you, for you to
    remain in life, for your places to remain strong,
    for you to pass on your offices to your children,
    you scribes, lector priests, mortuary priests, all
    people, you shall say for me:
    O N, you shall revive, you shall wake up, you
    shall live, you shall become one of the stars,
    you shall receive offerings in the temples. He
    (sic) shall take on [any] shape, the ladder shall
    be [… for] him, that he may ascend to the sky,
    and the two cows shall be in the temple, O N,
    true of voice.’
    And you shall say: ‘A thousand of bread and
    beer (…)’
    Stela, Cairo CG 20829, Saqqara, late Dyn. 12 (prob. Amenemhat III)
    Categories of Pyramid Texts spells
    Offering spells
    25, 77, 81, 204–210, *721 [>CT 516], BD 148

    Hymn to Min-Amun
    301

    Manifestation spells
    247, 248, 249, ‘medley’ from CG 20829
    ‘Les passages des Textes des
    Ferryman spell Pyramides qui mentionnent cette
    traversé se situent généralement
    270 dans le contexte de l’ascension du roi
    défunt’
    (Bickel 2004: 92)
    Spell for bringing the ferryboat

    May you awaken in peace, His-Face-Behind-


    Him, in peace, Sight-Behind-Him, in peace,
    Ḥtp-dj-nsw-formula ferryman of the sky, in peace,
    ferryman of Nut, in peace, ferryman of the
    gods, in peace! N has come to you that you
    may sail him across in that great ferryboat in
    which the gods sail. N has come to his side like
    the god comes to his side. N has come to his
    proximity like the gods comes to his proximity.
    There is no accusation by a living against so-
    and-so, there is no accusation by a mother
    against so-and-so, there is no accusation by a
    daughter against so-and-so, there is no charge
    PT 270 by a bull against so-and-so. If you do not ferry
    across [N, then he shall jump up and place
    himself on the wings of Thoth, and it is he who
    shall ferry N across to the sky, to yonder side]

    Stela, St Petersburg 2958, unknown provenance, late Dyn. 12 – first half of Dyn. 13
    Daily movement of the
    Lunar celestial bodies
    movement

    East West

    Diagram showing the movement of the moon at the end of a lunar month. After Krauss,
    Astronomische Konzepte und Jenseitsvorstellungen in den Pyramidentexten (Wiesbaden,
    1997), p. 74.
    ‘(I contracted a lector priest
    …) to perform the ceremony
    in the place of embalming,
    and to recite the liturgy for
    the ḥm at every month-
    festival and every half-
    month-festival, so that my
    name may be actualised, so
    that my memory may exist
    to this day, and so that the
    shrine of this efficacious
    dignitary may remain
    efficacious.’

    Stela, British Museum EA 1164, Armant, late Dyn. 11


    Roman Jakobson’s two semiotic axes

    Forward flow of words


    Combination
    (syntagmatic axis)

    Word choice

    Selection
    (paradigmatic axis)
    From Crypt to Cult – Pyramid Texts
    on Middle Kingdom Mortuary Stelae
    Rune Nyord, Emory University

    Substitution Workshop, FU Berlin 24–25 May 2019 rune.nyord@emory.edu

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