Narratives of Egypt and the Ancient Near East : literary and linguistic approaches /
: " ... originated in a conference entitled "Framing plots : the grammar of ancient Near Eastern narratives", held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 16th - 17th December 2005"-- Foreword. : xxxvi, 558 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789042922075 : Nabil
An Eighteenth Dynasty Writing Board (Ashmolean 1948.91) and The Hymn to the Nile /
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The article presents a writing tablet from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. It contains various administrative accounts as well as one of the earliest-known copies, in duplicate, of the initial lines of The Hymn to the Nile, written by different hands, probably made by a teacher and his student. The variants of the two copies are compared and analysed, and the use of writing boards in New Kingdom Egypt is outlined. Finally, the social context of the hymn is discussed.