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The Oracle of the Potter

Conjecturedin Alexandria?Conjectured · Our reconstructionour placement

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I · The entry, in his form

In the table of History: “prophecy”

Conjectured · Our reconstructionour placement

Anonymous (presented as translated from Egyptian)

The Oracle of the Potter

Opening words not preserved.

Length: not counted

Above, his entry form, filled from what we know. Below, ours.

II · Does it survive? Where to read it

Survives in fragments

Was it in Alexandria?

Conjectured

Of the Egyptian milieu.

On the ledge: written in Egypt or in a tradition the city shaped; not known in the Library.

Read it today

Greek text and German translation in Koenen (2002).

III · In the show

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IV · Sources and the living entry

Ancient references (2)
  • P.Rainer G 19813
  • P.Oxy. XXII 2332
Modern scholarship (2)
  • L. Koenen, 'Die Apologie des Topfers an Konig Amenophis oder das Topferorakel', in A. Blasius and B. U. Schipper (eds), Apokalyptik und Agypten (Leuven: Peeters, 2002), 139-187.
  • G. Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind (Cambridge, 1986)

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THE ORACLE OF THE POTTER

Beside it on the ledge