Oracle of the Lamb

Short description: Ancient Egyptian prophetic text

The Oracle of the Lamb is an ancient Egyptian prophetic text written on a papyrus in Demotic Egyptian and dated to the thirty-third year of the reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus (r. 27 BC – 14 AD).[1] In it, a lamb speaks and provides prophecies to a man named Pasenhor. The lamb describes a world turned upside-down and reduced to chaos: temples are in disarray, the ruler has now become the ruled, and the Medes (i.e. referring to the Persian domination of Egypt) have come to destroy Egypt.[1] It also mentions that the Ancient Greece (i.e. referring to the Ptolemaic domination of Egypt) will take the White Crown (representing pharaonic Upper Egypt).[1] The story is comparable in style, tone, and subject matter to prophetic texts of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, such as the Prophecy of Neferti.[2]

## Contents

* 1 See also
* 2 Notes
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## See also

* Demotic Chronicle
* Oracle of the Potter

## Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gozzoli (2006), pp. 293–294.
2. ↑ Gozzoli (2006), 301–302.

## References

Gozzoli, Roberto B. (2006). The Writings of History in Ancient Egypt during the First Millennium BC (ca. 1070–180 BC): Trends and Perspectives. London: Golden House Publications, printed and bound by T.J. International. ISBN 0-9550256-3-X.

## External links

* Oracle of the Lamb : English translation by R.K. Ritner

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