Foy Scalf. “New Papyri from Bab el Gusus? The Prosopography and Provenience of Papyrus HM 84123.” Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale 125 (2025): 425–448.
A Book of the Dead papyrus in the Huntington Library belonged to a woman who was
a “singer of Amun” (šmꜤ.t n Ꞽmn) named Taaatemperamun (TꜢ-ꜤꜢ.t-m-pr-Ꞽmn). A working
hypothesis is presented that she may be the same person who owned the Amduat papyrus
Cairo S.R.VII.10242 (written TꜢ-ꜤꜢ.(t)-(m)-pr-Ꞽmn), thereby potentially identifying the missing
manuscript from the commonly attested set of Book of the Dead and Amduat papyri found
in mortuary assemblages of the Twenty-First Dynasty during the Third Intermediate Period.
In the course of discussing the evidence for this working hypothesis, an argument is made that
previous proposals for identifying four separate personal names (Ꜣs.t, Ꜣsty, TꜢ-ꜤꜢ.(t)-Ꞽmn, and
TꜢ-ꜤꜢ.t-m-pr-Ꞽmn) as belonging to a single individual should be rejected. In reassessing these
claims, the most recent research suggests that the assemblages in which their manuscripts were
discovered had been configured in an ad hoc fashion in antiquity. Thus, this article argues that
attention to the original owners’ names must remain an important criterion for identifying
ancient individuals and suggests caution in assuming different names belonged to the same
individual without more specific evidence for confirmation.
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