Данный выпуск посвящен публикации трех десятков новых и первых переводов на русский язык ключевых надписей по истории древних Судана и Египта, а также других памятников письменности позднего времени. В числе наиболее важных представлены группа стел фараона Тахарки, малоизвестных в России «Похода Псаметика II в Нубию» и «Победной надписи Яхмоса II», новый перевод на русский и немецкий языки «Хроник Настасена», а также полный вариант исследования «Решения синода в Мемфисе». В приложение включены публикации нескольких памятников.

Публикация переводов на русский язык четырех десятков писем и историко-биографических документов древнего Египта различных эпох. Критические заметки завершают издание.

Вторая часть исследования группы египетских текстов греко-римского времени является академическим изданием оригинальных надписей и их копий. Многие материалы публикуются впервые.

The note aims to introduce an inscription from the fragment of a Late-Egyptian coffin lid currently in a German private collection. The offering formula containts a reference to the temple of Osiris located in “the Lower Egyptian Abydos” (today Abusir al-Meleq)

The current paper aims to present two monuments from the Late Period and to discuss their historical significance. Photos of stela BM 393 taken in ultraviolet and infrared made possible to read the faded inscription. The study of the record reveals a blood relation between the owner of the stela Anemher (217–132 BC) and Imhotep (IV century BC), known from the sarcophagus Louvre D 12. New research thus introduces a previously unknown family of wnr-priests, who lived in the IV–II centuries BC and officiated in Letopolis and the Serapeum of Memphis. Anemher, the last member of the priestly dynasty relates that he was involved in the burial of an Apis bull in 143 BC.

The article deals with the study of two figurines of Thoth kept in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (Inv. I.1.a 5702 and I.1.a 5703) and presents the hieroglyphic text, translation and textual comments on the inscriptions. The first artifact is dated to the Late period, the other to the end of the 20th dynasty.

The present research deals with magical formulae and mythological texts engraved on the statue of the hereditory prince, the king’s treasurer, who arbitrates between two gods, imi-khent-priest, the king’s speaker, the general Harchebi currently in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, inv. I.1.a.5319, formerly in the collection of V. Golenischeff. Originated from Mendes (the temple of Banebjed) the statue from the early Ptolemaic period is inscribed by 14 spells. The writing is faded, both catalogues of 2004 (S. Hodjash & O. Berlev) published the images of the object without hand-copies of the hieroglyphic text. The book contains the description of the cippus, hand-copies of all its inscriptions and philological analysis of the texts including a discussion of the corresponding documents (in some cases with improved editions of the text). Both translations and comments are in German with Russian preview. Pages from B. Turaev’s original publication of the statue аnd the pages from the Guide to the Moscow museum of 1917 are included in an appendix.

Автореферат диссертации, посвященной изучению и изданию письменных источников IV–I вв. до н. э., сообщающих сведения о верховных жрецах Мемфиса и членах их семьи.

The paper aims to reveal the implication of the word “death” in the latest version of the ancient Egyptian “appeal to the living”. The investigation is based on the text inscribed on the stela of Taimhotep, a wife of Psherenptah III, High Priest of Memphis (British Museum EA 147, lines 15–21, BC 42). The originality of the record, presented in a new translation, consists in the development of the earlier traditional concepts by its creator, who styled the text as a message from the deceased to the living. The letter conveys the belief in the inevitability of death and uncertainty about the time of its summons. Addressing to her spouse, the deceased woman describes the “gloomy darkness” around her and advices to enjoy the life of the present every day that after a thousand-year interval echoes the mood and tenor of the harpers’ songs from the New Kingdom tombs. The study discusses the reading of the word “death” and the author states an occurrence of a new word. The name of the death expressed by imperative of the verb “come” is derived from the description of the day when a man is called to enter the netherworld.

The present paper continues the publication of the most remarkable monuments of a priestly family from the Ptolemaic Memphis. This time the author presents a reseach on the stela BM EA 886, the owner of which is Psherenptah III, a high priest of Ptah, husband of Taimhotep. A thorough examination of the inscription based on the digital images has resulted in a new translation accompanied with commentaries and textual notes. New interpretation of puzzling or disputable fragments is proposed. The earlier editions of the monument are discussed in detail. Moreover, the study deals with the pedigree and the history of the family in question.