Ptolemais Hermiou (Upper Egypt, Egypt — Pleiades map), I BCE
André Bernand, La prose sur pierre dans l’Égypte hellénistique et romaine (Paris: CNRS, 1992), no. 47
= SB I 3451
= PHI 219987
= CGRN 144 (with French translation and English commentary)
= AGRW ID# 16232
Those entering into the … temple (?) … are to be pure in accordance with the following: from illness of one’s own family member or … of another person (?) … on the 7th day; from death at child–birth, having taken part in a miscarriage (or: abortion), on the 40th day; from having given birth and nursed, on the … xth day; and if it is exposed, on the 14th day; from having sex with a woman on the 2nd day, and the same holds for women having sex with men; responsibility for a miscarriage (or: abortion) on the 40th day, … on account of encountering death (?) … ; and giving birth and nursing on the … xth day; and if the infant is exposed on the 14th day; from a woman’s monthly period on the 7th day; … the woman from (?) having sex with a man on the 2nd day; and from contact with (?) myrtle on the 2nd day.
Translation by: HarlandItem added: February 6, 2015
Item modified: November 22, 2022
ID number: 16232
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