Gardiner suggests it must be the technical name of the Egyptian emissary in Syria. The word maher is found frequently in this papyrus, but nowhere else. Hori goes on to show that Amenemope is not skilled in the role of a maher. XIX An example of the satire in the text The stream of Jordan, how is it crossed? Cause me to know the way of crossing over to Megiddo which is above it(?). Pray teach me concerning the appearance(?) of Kin acquaint me with Rehob explain Beth-sha-el and Tereqel. Thou dost not know the name of Kheneredj which is in the land of Upe, a bull upon its boundary, the scene of the battles of every warrior. Thou dost not know Ideren, nor yet Djedpet. Thou hast not beheld Kirjath-anab and Beth-Sepher. Thou hast not gone to the land of Kadesh, Tekhes, Kurmeren, Temenet, Deper, Idi, Herenem. The border lands of Egypt's province of Caanan with Kadesh are defined on page XIX:Ĭome let me tell thee of other towns, which are above(?) them. There is a long list of towns which run along the northern border of the djadi or watershed of the Jordan in Canaan, which bound Lebanon along the Litani River and upper retnu and Syria along the Orontes. This papyrus is important to historians and Bible scholars above all for the information it supplies about towns in Syria and Canaan during the New Kingdom. In a long section Hori discusses the geography of the Mediterranean coast as far north as the Lebanon and the troubles which might beset a traveler there. The letter gives examples of what a scribe was supposed to be able to do: calculating the number of rations which have to be doled out to a certain number of soldiers digging a lake, or the quantity of bricks needed to erect a ramp of given dimensions, assessing the number of men needed to move an obelisk or erect a statue, and organizing the supply of provisions for an army. Content and importance to modern scholarship The papyrus was originally purchased from Giovanni Anastasi in 1839. One scribe, an army scribe, Hori, writes to his fellow scribe, Amenemope, in such a way as to ridicule the irresponsible and second-rate nature of Amenemope's work. Papyrus Anastasi I (officially designated papyrus British Museum 10247) is an ancient Egyptian papyrus containing a satirical text used for the training of scribes during the Ramesside Period (i.e. ( March 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. it is absolutely necessary to present the hieroglyphic text in a word for word translation accompanied by the relevant remarks and explanations in order for the reader to be convinced that the above claim is true.This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. The words of the man betray details of the requirements posed by the gods, describe the place where the inspection was realized, inform of the practice of noting down the results of the inspection and, finally, provide the crucial information that apart from the inspection of the physical attributes there was a separate procedure where the speaking capability, or the knowledge of a certain language, was evaluated. In essence, the Funerary texts are composed of the words uttered by the man being judged who is defending himself by assuring the gods that his body is made out of parts of god’s body. In the Egyptian Funerary Texts, which contain the oldest recordings of humanity’s raw oral traditions, there are incredible details pertaining to the procedure of the judgment. This story had not yet degenerated into a fairy tale but theology intervened and the object of the judgment, which was the physical form of the men, had been substituted by the deeds of the men, by the morality of the men. In the Hebrew Bible the God comes down to the earth in order to personally judge the people of Sodom and Gomorrah alive before killing them. Only those that would fit the bed exactly would survive. Procrustes was a son of god who would stretch people or cut off their legs, so as to force them to fit the size of his iron bed. A relevant Greek myth, which due to the late time of its recording had already turned into a fairy tale, is the myth of the Procrustes. According to the texts, that was the process by which the gods created humans in their image. "The information communicated by the ancients to us, the people of this and some of the previous generations, was that the gods judged the men alive and that those who were found to be not in the image of the gods were exterminated.
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