papyrus
- Museum number
- EA10435,2
- Description
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Joined with EA 10371. Papyrus; Hieratic text; recto: Teaching of Ptahhotep; verso: administrative text.
- Dimensions
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Length: 57.20 centimetres (frame)
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Width: 21.20 centimetres (frame)
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- Curator's comments
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Ptahhotep mss are being studied by F. Hagen (Camnbridge) and A. Heyne (Basel).
This manuscript is available on T.L.A. (http://aaew.bbaw.de/tla/).
Translation of text: R. B. Parkinson, The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Egyptian Poems (1999), pp. 246-72.
The accounts on the verso can be dated to the reign of Amenemhat III: R. Pirelli, 'Two new stela from Mersa Gawasis', RdE 58 (2007), 87-110 (es. 92-3).
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See F. Hagen, An Ancient Egyptian Literary Text in Context; The Instruction of Ptahhotep (OLA 218; Leuven; Peeters), 2012, 131-42.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair (incomplete - fragmentary)
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Teaching of Ptahhotep
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA10435,2
- Registration number
- 1868,0229.3.2
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Frame.2