Onomasticon of Amenemipet

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The Onomasticon of Amenemipet (also known as the "Onomasticon of Amenemope") is an onomasticon of late New Kingdom date.

The Onomasticon of Amenemipet is the sole onomastic composition that names its compiler, and the onomasticon known from the greatest number of sources, from the Ramesside Period through to late Third Intermediate Period.

1 Copies
2 Title
3 Outline
4 Bibliography

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Copies

One of the best preserved copies of the Onomoasticon of Amenemipet is a Third Intermediate Period papyrus from el-Hibeh in Middle Egypt, and subsequently acquired by Wladimir Golenischeff (the 'Golenischeff Onomasticon') for the Pushkin Museum of Fune Arts in Moscow. This text, designated Papyrus Moscow 169 and probably dating to the early Twenty-First Dynasty, served as the basis for the main modern edition of the composition [Gardiner 1947].

The Golenischeff Onomasticon was reportedly found together with the sole surviving copies of the Tale of Wenamun and the Literary Letter of Lament in a pottery jar; whether the manuscripts were found in the town or in the cemetery remains unknown.

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Title

ḥ3t-ʿ m sb3yt wḥʿ jb mty ḫm

rḫ wnnt nbt qm3.n ptḥ sḫpr.n Ḏḥwty

pt m šsrw.s t3 imy=f

qʿḥ ḏw iwḥ m nwn

m 3ḫt nbt ḥ3y=n Rʿ.(w)

srwdt nbt ḥr-s3 t3

m3j.n sš mḏ3t nṯr m pr ʿnḫ Jmn.(w)-m-jp.t s3 Jmn.(w)-m-jp.t ḏd.f

Beginning of the teaching, explaining to the heart, instructing the ignorant,

to know all that exists, created by Ptah, brought into being by Thoth,

the sky with its features, the earth and what is in it,

the bend of the mountain, and what is washed by the primeval waters,

consisting of all that is useful, illumined by Ra,

all that is made to grow upon earth,

reported by the scribe of god's books in the House of Life Amenemipet son of Amenemipet, who says:

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Outline

1-62 sky, water, earth

63-229 gods, spirits, kings, officials

230-312 people and groups of people including foreigners and foreign lands (238-294) and age groups (295-304)

313-419 category town (313), list of towns of Upper and Lower Egypt

420-473 buildings and their parts, and types of land

474-578 agricultural land, grain, produce

579-610 parts of an ox and kinds of meat

The Golenischeff manuscript ends at word number 610: one fragmentary Third Intermediate Period papyrus continues with names of plants and trees (British Museum ESA 10795, unpublished).

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