ostracon
- Museum number
- EA65943
- Description
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Limestone ostracon: on one side only, five lines of text containing a duplicate of the 'Satire of Trades', P. Sallier II 10, 2-3 / part of 'Teaching of Khety'. Between line four and line five a date is written in red.
- Dimensions
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Height: 13.50 centimetres
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Weight: 601 grammes
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Width: 15 centimetres
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Depth: 4.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
J. J. Černy and A.H. Gardiner, ‘Hieratic Ostraca’ (Oxford 1957), p. 12 and pl. XL, 3;
W. Helck, ‘Die Lehre des Dwʒ ẖtjj’, Kleine ägyptische Texte (Wiesbaden, 1970), p. 5, no. 83.
For edition of the Teaching of Khety (so-called Satire on Trades): S. Jäger Altägyptische Berufstypologien (Lingua Aegyptia Studia Monographica 4, 2004).
Translation : Parkinson, The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940–1649 BC. (Oxford World’s Classics 1999), 273-83.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2022-2023 13 Oct-19 Feb, London, BM, Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt
- Condition
- good
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Teaching of Khety
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Associated Title: Satire on the Trades
- Acquisition date
- 1959
- Acquisition notes
- G. D. Nash Collection
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA65943
- Registration number
- 1959,1212.144