Turin erotic papyrus
The Turin erotic papyrus , created around 1150 BC. BC, during the 20th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt , was discovered in Deir el-Medina at the beginning of the 19th century and recorded under the number 55001 in the Egyptian Museum in Turin .
Of the originally approx. 3.20 m long papyrus, 2.59 m are preserved today in a very poor condition. Its width is 21.5 cm. It consists of two parts: a satirical part, of which only 85 cm are preserved, and an erotic part with a length of 1.74 m. The two parts are now kept separately. In the satirical part, animals behaving as humans are depicted. The erotic part consists of twelve independent scenes that take place in a Lupanar .
The French Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion was shocked by the "monstrous obscenity" when he saw the papyrus in Turin in 1824.
literature
- Alexander Brawanski and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert: The “erotic” section of the Turin Papyrus 55001: a lesson for the male ego? In: Studies on Ancient Egyptian Culture, 41 (2012), pp. 67–97.
- Joseph Omlin: The papyrus 55001 and its satirical-erotic drawings and inscriptions (= Catalogo del Museo Egizio di Torino. Volume 3). Pozzo, Turin 1973.
- Tim Panduro, Niels-Peter Granzow Busch: Porno op papyrus. In: Historia. Issue 3, 2017, pp. 58-61 (Dutch).
Web links
- David O'Connor: Eros in Egypt in Archeology Odyssey , September / October 2001 (English).
- General view of the papyrus (English).
- 2009 American TV movie Sex in the Ancient World: Egyptian Erotica on Imdb.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pascal Vernus: Le Papyrus de Turin érotique: la transgression codifiée. Conference at the University of Lille 3, December 21, 2012 conférence en ligne sur Live 3 (French)
- ↑ Life in Luxor - Luxor West Bank: The workers' village Deir el-Medina - work, everyday life, cult. Retrieved May 20, 2017 .