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The Westcar Papyrus (Papyrus Berlin 3033) is an ancient Egyptian manuscript containing five stories about miracles performed by priests and magicians, told at the court of King Khufu of the Fourth Dynasty. The document consists of twelve columns written in hieratic script and has been dated to the Hyksos period (18th to 16th century BC), though Egyptologists believe it may have been written during the Thirteenth Dynasty.
British adventurer Henry Westcar (1798-1868) apparently discovered the papyrus during travels in Egypt in 1823 or 1824. German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius claimed to have received it from Westcar's niece in 1838 or 1839 and stored it in his attic, never publishing it. In 1886, Egyptologist Adolf Erman purchased it from Lepsius' son and placed it in the Museum of Berlin.
The stories feature several named figures, including King Khufu and his sons Khafre, Baufra, and Hordjedef, who each narrate a tale. Key characters within the stories include the lector priests Ubaoner and Djadjaemankh, the magician Dedi of Djed-Sneferu, and Rededjet, the mother of the first three kings of the Fifth Dynasty.
Dedi, said to be over a hundred years old, reattaches the severed heads of a goose, an unspecified waterbird, and a bull at King Khufu's court. He also reveals a prophecy about the three future kings of the Fifth Dynasty, beginning with Userkaf, saying that they are in the womb of a woman named Rededjet.
Khufu is portrayed as a contradictory figure: ruthless (he orders a condemned prisoner beheaded to test Dedi's powers), yet also inquisitive, reasonable, and generous (he accepts Dedi's refusal and rewards him). Earlier scholars such as Adolf Erman read the portrait as heartless, while Egyptologist Dietrich Wildung argued the prisoner scene was an act of mercy. Lepper and Lichtheim believed the ambiguity was deliberate.
Egyptologists Verena Lepper and Miriam Lichtheim identified the papyri pAthen, pBerlin 3023 (The Eloquent Peasant), and The Prophecy of Neferti as texts that drew from the Westcar stories. pBerlin 3023 column 232 contains the phrase "sleeping until dawn," which appears nearly word-for-word in the Westcar Papyrus, and pAthen references moving waters in a way that directly echoes the feats of Djadjaemankh and Dedi.