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The Ipuwer Papyrus (officially Papyrus Leiden I 344 recto) is an ancient Egyptian hieratic papyrus made during the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt, and now held in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, Netherlands. [ 1] It contains the Admonitions of Ipuwer, an incomplete literary work whose original composition is dated no earlier than the late ...
Photo of ancient papyrus document, showing vertical and horizontal striations from the strips of pith of the papyrus plant. This list of papyri from ancient Egypt includes some of the better known individual papyri written in hieroglyphs, hieratic, demotic or in ancient Greek. Excluded are papyri found abroad or containing Biblical texts which ...
The text was discovered in Thebes in 1847 by Egyptologist M. Prisse d'Avennes. [2] The Instructions of Ptahhotep are considered didactic wisdom literature belonging to the genre of sebayt . [ 3 ] There are four copies of the Instructions, and the only complete version, Papyrus Prisse , is located in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris . [ 4 ]
Pepi II Neferkare (2284 BC – after 2247 BC, probably either c. 2216 or c. 2184 BC [ 2][ note 1]) was a pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty in Egypt's Old Kingdom who reigned from c. 2278 BC. His second name, Neferkare ( Nefer-ka-Re ), means "Beautiful is the Ka of Re ". He succeeded to the throne at age six, after the death of Merenre I .
Verso of papyrus 𝔓 37. A New Testament papyrus is a copy of a portion of the New Testament made on papyrus. To date, over 140 such papyri are known. In general, they are considered the earliest witnesses to the original text of the New Testament. [1] This elite status among New Testament manuscripts only began in the 20th century.
Papyrus Bremer-Rind: 6-7: The Repulsing of the Dragon and the Creation: Shabaka Stone: 1.15: The "Memphite Theology" 4-6: The Theology of Memphis: 1.17: Coffin Texts Spell 1130: 7-8: All Men Created Equal in Opportunity: Book of the Dead: 1.18: Book of the Dead 175: 9-10: The Primeval Establishment of Order: Coffin Texts: 1.19: Coffin Text 157: 10
A particularly important piece is the Ipuwer Papyrus, often called the Lamentations or Admonitions of Ipuwer, which although not dated to this period by modern scholarship may refer to the First Intermediate Period and record a decline in international relations and a general impoverishment in Egypt. [24]
Image contrast and brightness were enhanced to better visualize the details visible to the naked eye on their external surface. [ 1] The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1,800 papyrus scrolls discovered in the 18th century in the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum. They had been carbonized when the villa was engulfed by the eruption of Mount ...