Note 923 — Chapter IX · UNLUCKY DAYS

The text was published in Select Papyri in the Hieratic Character, London, 1844, pt. i, pls. 144-168, and was translated by F. J. Chabas (Le calendrier des jours fastes et néfastes de l’année égyptienne, Chalon-s.-S., 1870). The work of Chabas was masterly, but it has now become antiquated by the progress of Egyptology. F. Bohn (Der Sabbat im Alten Testament, Gütersloh, 1903, pp. 57-62) gives a revised and corrected version of numerous passages, based on the studies of Professor Sethe, and Wreszinski (loc. cit.) translates directly from the Egyptian text. For discussions of this important document see Sir G. Maspero, Études égyptiennes, Paris, 1886, i, 29 sq.; idem, Les contes populaires de l’Égypte ancienne,³ Paris, 1905, pp. xlix-lii; idem, New Light on Ancient Egypt,² London, 1909, pp. 128-136; A. Erman, Life in Ancient Egypt, London, 1894, pp. 351 sq.; A. Wiedemann, The Religion of the Ancient Egyptians, London, 1897, pp. 263 sqq.; E. A. W. Budge, Egyptian Magic,² London, 1901, pp. 224 sqq.; G. Foucart, “Calendar (Egyptian),” Hastings’s Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, iii, 100 sq.