Abstrakt
The shaft tomb of priest Iufaa, located at Saite-Persian cemetery at Abusir, contains, besides parts of known textual corpora many hitherto unknown texts. The presentation will focus on some of these texts from the inner side of his outer sarcophagus, which mention some aethilogical myths or their parts.
Such myths are typical for priestly manuals, mythological handbooks or funerary papyri from the Late Period onward (e. g. pBrooklyn 47.218.84, pJumilhac, pNew York 35.9.21 etc.), but to have them carved in one's tomb is rather unusual. Iufaa's outer sarcophagus contains e.g. a cosmogony based on the background of Heliopolitan religious ideas, written as a speech of Thoth to the Ennead, and text about Tutu and his group of protective demons connected with the new year, mentioning also their connection to the fight of Ra and Apophis, as well as the personified eye of Ra.
Another interesting example is a text connected to the Memphite region, mentioning the myth how multitude and deficiency came into being through the power of the words of the creator god; or the myth about the origin of one of the epithets of Thoth. Based on the concrete examples from the tomb of Iufaa, parts of these texts will be presented.
Besides the translations, the mechanisms of the work with religious texts, their content and grammatical structure in the Late Period will be demostrated.