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What you've got there is a quote from what's known as the Adoption Papyrus, which is a legal document created for Nebnefer and Nanefer, a couple who were unable to have children of their own. This being so, that Nebnefer formally adopted his wife as his 'child' so that she would become the sole heir and his family couldn't get their hands on his property and any wealth the two had made together. Basically, the original document serves as a procès-verbal, so if the family tried to take her inheritance away, she could produce this document and they'd have to hand it back. They were still in some legal jeopardy, because his wife had no children, but could on his death, remarry, and potentially have children with a new partner. This would still avoid the dreaded family getting hold of his property and turfing his wife out to live alone on the streets. This is what happened to women if they were not provided for by their husbands before death and the family of the deceased husband wasn't kind. Nebnefer would have been well within his rights to cast aside Nanefer for a wife who could produce children, as per Egyptian custom, but he didn't, and instead created this document to protect her.
So 17 years later an amendment is made to the same document by Nebnefer and Rennefer (same woman, just the name has changed for some reason). During this time they have bought a servant woman, and she has three children. Rennefer is written about in the 1st person, and she states that she has adopted the children of this servant as her own and has been raising them as her own. It is also noted that Rennefer's brother Pendiu has moved in, in the meantime, and has married the eldest daughter of the servant woman. In creating this amendment, Nebnefer not only bequeaths his estate to his three adopted children, but this process formally makes them 'freemen of the Pharaoh', while their mother remains a servant and gives up claim to them, as does whomever their father is. Due to the fact that Pendiu has married the eldest daughter, he becomes de-facto in charge of the estate on Nebnefer's death, but this will take care of Rennefer and the three children. This is the specific passage:
On this day: statement of the Chief of the Stable Nebnefer together with his wife, the Chantress of Seth (of) Sepermeru, Rennefer, to the effect that:
“We have bought a female slave Dinihutiry, and she bore these 3 children – one male and two female, total 3 – and I took them and I looked after them and brought them up, and I have reached today with them, with then not doing anything bad against me, but doing good to me, and there being no (other) son or daughter (of ours) apart from them, and the Chief of the Stable Pendiu entered my house, and he made Taamenniut, their elder sister, as wife, he being mine – my younger brother – and I accepted him for her. He is with her today. Look, I have made them free men of the Land of Pharaoh, l.p.h.. If she shall give birth, a son or daughter, they are freemen of the Land of Pharaoh, l.p.h. just the same, being with the Chief of the Stable Pendiu, this younger brother of mine, the younger ones together with their elder sister in the house of Pendiu, this Chief of the Stable, this younger brother of mine. I am making him into a son for me today just like them.”
On the verso, the reverse of the document, is where we find the threat you've got quoted there. This is specifically targeted at Nebnefer's family who are not happy at being cut out of receiving his property and seek to denounce the children as illegitimate. The full passage reads:
She said: “As Amun endures, as the Ruler l.p.h. endures, I make these people whom I have publicised as freemen of the Land of Pharaoh, l.p.h., so that if the son or daughter, brother or sister of their mother or their father should make claim against them, apart from Pendiu, the son of mine, with whom they are in no way slaves, but with whom they are brothers and children, being freemen of the Land <of Pharaoh, l.p.h.>, a donkey shall fuck him, and a donkey shall fuck his wife, the one who shall say “Slave!” to one of them. If I have fields in the countryside, if I have any property in the world, if I have SAwAtyw, they are divided up for my 4 children, Pendiu being one of them. As for all the things I have said, they are entrusted to Pendiu, this child of mine who has acted well to me when I have been a widow, and my husband dead.”
Basically, she's saying 'If my husband's brothers and sisters want to make a fuss about this, and insult the children by calling them slaves, then I hope a donkey fucks him and then also fucks his wife for good measure. They're legitimate, don't fucking come for them or you will face the consequences.'
This is a 'legal threat' in the sense that it is one that comes within a legal document, and legal documents tend to have this sort of thing in them. They're not curses, because it relies on an action being taken, which is why we say 'threat' not 'curse'. It's 'I hope a donkey will fuck you in the ass if you mess with my kids' not 'a donkey will fuck you in the ass if you mess with my kids'. The fact that Nebnefer's brothers and sisters are witnesses to this document, means that they are well aware of its contents and the threat it contains should they seek to delegitimise it.
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