Demotic texts and the trilingual decrees

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Licence: public domain — E. A. W. Budge (d. 1934), The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, vol. I, London 1904; public domain by age (LICENCES.md author-death-year rule, verified death year ≤ 1971); scan from archive.org, identifier decreesofmemphis01budg, fetched 2026-09-10; no licence stated by the Internet Archive

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• Budge, The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, vol
• Griffith & Thompson, The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden, vol

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Licence: public domain in Canada (author died ≤ 1971, verified; LICENCES.md §7) — US position (recorded, does not gate the class; PD-CA 2026-09-26): PD-US (published ≤1930)

Attribution (first text; each text prints its own): Budge – The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, vol. I: The Rosetta Stone (Books on Egypt and Chaldaea 17, London/New York 1904); public domain in Canada (death year verified: Budge d.1934: LC-style heading "Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934" in the PDF Author field of corpus/incoming/demotic-texts/budge_decrees-of-memphis-and-canopus_v1/v2/v3_1904.pdf (pdfinfo, read 2026-09-29) + corpus/scan_copyright.csv rows for Budge ("Budge d.1934", en.wikipedia); title page corpus/incoming/demotic-texts/budge_decrees-of-memphis-and-canopus_v1_1904.pdf pdf p. 9 ("… by E. A. Wallis Budge … 1904") · note (PROPOSED-scan_copyright-E-2.csv): (E-2 volume budge-decrees-i-1904)); OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.

Jurisdiction note: this text is public domain under Canadian law (the project is published from Canada; LICENCES.md §7: author died in or before 1971). It may still be in copyright elsewhere — in countries with a life + 70 term, or where a later edition claims its own rights. The licence line above says what was verified. If you are outside Canada, check your own law before re-using it.

• Budge, The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, vol
• Griffith & Thompson, The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden, vol

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Licence: public domain — F. Ll. Griffith (d. 1934), Stories of the High Priests of Memphis: the Sethon of Herodotus and the Demotic Tales of Khamuas (Setne I and II), Oxford 1900; public domain by age (LICENCES.md author-death-year rule, verified death year ≤ 1971); scan from archive.org, identifier storiesofhighpri00grifuoft, fetched 2026-09-10; no licence stated by the Internet Archive

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• Griffith, Stories of the High Priests of Memphis — Setne I and II (1900)

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Licence: public domain — F. Ll. Griffith and Herbert Thompson (d. 1934 / 1944), The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden, vol. III: indices and Demotic glossary, 1909; public domain by age (LICENCES.md author-death-year rule, verified death year ≤ 1971); scan from archive.org, identifier the-demotic-magical-papyrus-of-london-and-leiden-v.-3, fetched 2026-09-10; no licence stated by the Internet Archive

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• Griffith & Thompson, The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden, vol

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Licence: public domain — Wilhelm Spiegelberg (d. 1930), Demotische Grammatik, Heidelberg 1925; public domain by age (LICENCES.md author-death-year rule, verified death year ≤ 1971); scan from archive.org, identifier demotischegramma00spie, fetched 2026-09-10; no licence stated by the Internet Archive

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• Spiegelberg, Demotische Grammatik (1925)

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Licence: public domain — Wilhelm Spiegelberg (d. 1930), Die sogenannte demotische Chronik des Pap. 215 der Bibliothèque nationale zu Paris, 1914; public domain by age (LICENCES.md author-death-year rule, verified death year ≤ 1971); scan from archive.org, identifier diesogenanntedem00spieuoft, fetched 2026-09-10; no licence stated by the Internet Archive

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• Spiegelberg, Die sogenannte demotische Chronik, Pap

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Licence: public domain — Wilhelm Spiegelberg (d. 1930), Demotische Papyrus von der Insel Elephantine I (nos. 1-13), Leipzig 1908; public domain by age (LICENCES.md author-death-year rule, verified death year ≤ 1971); scan from archive.org, identifier bub_gb_jyHgAAAAMAAJ, fetched 2026-09-10; archive.org states licenseurl = http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ on this item

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• Spiegelberg, Demotische Papyrus von der Insel Elephantine I (1908)

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Licence: public domain — E. A. W. Budge (d. 1934), The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, vol. II: THE ROSETTA STONE, London 1904; public domain by age (LICENCES.md author-death-year rule, verified death year ≤ 1971); scan from archive.org, identifier decreesofmemphis02budg, fetched 2026-09-10; no licence stated by the Internet Archive

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• Budge, The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, vol

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Licence: public domain — E. A. W. Budge (d. 1934), The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, vol. III, London 1904; public domain by age (LICENCES.md author-death-year rule, verified death year ≤ 1971); scan from archive.org, identifier decreesofmemphis03budg, fetched 2026-09-10; no licence stated by the Internet Archive

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• Budge, The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, vol

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Licence: public domain — Samuel Sharpe (d. 1881), The Decree of Canopus in Hieroglyphics and Greek, London 1870; public domain by age (LICENCES.md author-death-year rule, verified death year ≤ 1971); scan from archive.org, identifier cu31924026869564, fetched 2026-09-10; the Cornell scan carries the printed notice "There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text"

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• Sharpe, The Decree of Canopus in Hieroglyphics and Greek (1870)

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Licence: public domain in Canada (author died ≤ 1971, verified; LICENCES.md §7) — US position (recorded, does not gate the class; PD-CA 2026-09-26): PD-US (published ≤1930)

Attribution (first text; each text prints its own): Budge – The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, vol. II: The Rosetta Stone (vol. II) (Books on Egypt and Chaldaea 18, London/New York 1904); public domain in Canada (death year verified: Budge d.1934: LC-style heading "Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934" in the PDF Author field of corpus/incoming/demotic-texts/budge_decrees-of-memphis-and-canopus_v1/v2/v3_1904.pdf (pdfinfo, read 2026-09-29) + corpus/scan_copyright.csv rows for Budge ("Budge d.1934", en.wikipedia); title page corpus/incoming/demotic-texts/budge_decrees-of-memphis-and-canopus_v2_1904.pdf pdf p. 7 ("… by E. A. Wallis Budge … 1904") · note (PROPOSED-scan_copyright-E-2.csv): (E-2 volume budge-decrees-ii-1904)); OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.

Jurisdiction note: this text is public domain under Canadian law (the project is published from Canada; LICENCES.md §7: author died in or before 1971). It may still be in copyright elsewhere — in countries with a life + 70 term, or where a later edition claims its own rights. The licence line above says what was verified. If you are outside Canada, check your own law before re-using it.

• Budge, The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, vol

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Licence: public domain in Canada (author died ≤ 1971, verified; LICENCES.md §7) — US position (recorded, does not gate the class; PD-CA 2026-09-26): PD-US (published ≤1930)

Attribution (first text; each text prints its own): Budge – The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, vol. III: The Decree of Canopus (Books on Egypt and Chaldaea 19, London/New York 1904); public domain in Canada (death year verified: Budge d.1934: LC-style heading "Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934" in the PDF Author field of corpus/incoming/demotic-texts/budge_decrees-of-memphis-and-canopus_v1/v2/v3_1904.pdf (pdfinfo, read 2026-09-29) + corpus/scan_copyright.csv rows for Budge ("Budge d.1934", en.wikipedia); title page corpus/incoming/demotic-texts/budge_decrees-of-memphis-and-canopus_v3_1904.pdf pdf p. 11 ("… by E. A. Wallis Budge … 1904") · note (PROPOSED-scan_copyright-E-2.csv): (E-2 volume budge-decrees-iii-1904)); OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.

Jurisdiction note: this text is public domain under Canadian law (the project is published from Canada; LICENCES.md §7: author died in or before 1971). It may still be in copyright elsewhere — in countries with a life + 70 term, or where a later edition claims its own rights. The licence line above says what was verified. If you are outside Canada, check your own law before re-using it.

• Budge, The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, vol

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Licence: public domain in Canada (author died ≤ 1971, verified; LICENCES.md §7) — US position (recorded, does not gate the class; PD-CA 2026-09-26): PD-US (published ≤1930)

Attribution (first text; each text prints its own): Griffith – Stories of the High Priests of Memphis: the Sethon of Herodotus and the Demotic Tales of Khamuas (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900); public domain in Canada (death year verified: Griffith d.1934: PDF Author field "Griffith, F. Ll. (Francis Llewellyn), 1862-1934" (pdfinfo, read 2026-09-29) of corpus/incoming/demotic-texts/griffith_stories-high-priests-of-memphis_setne_1900.pdf; title page pdf p. 11 ("… by F. Ll. Griffith … Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1900") · note (PROPOSED-scan_copyright-E-2.csv): (E-2 volume griffith-setne-1900)); OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.

Jurisdiction note: this text is public domain under Canadian law (the project is published from Canada; LICENCES.md §7: author died in or before 1971). It may still be in copyright elsewhere — in countries with a life + 70 term, or where a later edition claims its own rights. The licence line above says what was verified. If you are outside Canada, check your own law before re-using it.

• Griffith – Stories of the High Priests of Memphis: the Sethon of Herodotus and the Demotic Tales of Khamuas (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900) — OCR (Apple Vision)

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Licence: public domain in Canada (author died ≤ 1971, verified; LICENCES.md §7) — US position (recorded, does not gate the class; PD-CA 2026-09-26): PD-US (published ≤1930)

Attribution (first text; each text prints its own): Sharpe – The Decree of Canopus, in Hieroglyphics and Greek, with translations and an explanation of the hieroglyphical characters (London: John Russell Smith, 1870); public domain in Canada (death year verified: Sharpe d.1881: PDF Author field "Sharpe, Samuel, 1799-1881, ed. and tr" of corpus/incoming/demotic-texts/sharpe_decree-of-canopus_1870.pdf (pdfinfo, read 2026-09-29); title page pdf p. 5 ("… by Samuel Sharpe … London: John Russell Smith … 1870") · note (PROPOSED-scan_copyright-E-2.csv): (E-2 volume sharpe-canopus-1870)); OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.

Jurisdiction note: this text is public domain under Canadian law (the project is published from Canada; LICENCES.md §7: author died in or before 1971). It may still be in copyright elsewhere — in countries with a life + 70 term, or where a later edition claims its own rights. The licence line above says what was verified. If you are outside Canada, check your own law before re-using it.

• Sharpe – The Decree of Canopus, in Hieroglyphics and Greek, with translations and an explanation of the hieroglyphical characters (London: John Russell Smith, 1870) — OCR (Apple Vision)

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Licence: public domain in Canada (author died ≤ 1971, verified; LICENCES.md §7) — US position (recorded, does not gate the class; PD-CA 2026-09-26): PD-US (published ≤1930)

Attribution (first text; each text prints its own): Spiegelberg – Demotische Papyrus von der Insel Elephantine I, Nr. 1–13 (Demotische Studien 2; Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1908); public domain in Canada (death year verified: Spiegelberg d.1930: PDF Author field "Spiegelberg, Wilhelm, 1870-1930" of corpus/incoming/demotic-texts/spiegelberg_demotische-papyrus-elephantine_1908.pdf (pdfinfo, read 2026-09-29); title page pdf p. 3 ("… veröffentlicht und bearbeitet von Wilhelm Spiegelberg, Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung 1908") · note (PROPOSED-scan_copyright-E-2.csv): archive.org item bub_gb_jyHgAAAAMAAJ carries a Public Domain Mark (demotic-texts/README.md §3) (E-2 volume spiegelberg-elephantine-1908)); OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.

Jurisdiction note: this text is public domain under Canadian law (the project is published from Canada; LICENCES.md §7: author died in or before 1971). It may still be in copyright elsewhere — in countries with a life + 70 term, or where a later edition claims its own rights. The licence line above says what was verified. If you are outside Canada, check your own law before re-using it.

• Spiegelberg – Demotische Papyrus von der Insel Elephantine I, Nr. 1–13 (Demotische Studien 2; Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1908) — OCR (Apple Vision)