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
New Kingdom ostraca from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridg e
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This book publishes a previously unknown collection of hieratic ostraca from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The texts include a broad range of genres, including wisdom literature, religious hymns, magical texts, medical recipes, private letters, administrative notes, scribal exercises ( Kemit ), and copies of tomb inscriptions. Each ostracon is presented with photographs, facsimile drawings and hieroglyphic transcriptions, as well as translations and brief philological commentaries. Many of the texts can be linked to the village of Deir el-Medina on internal evidence, and the book offers new data to scholars working with material from this famous site.
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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.