Cover; Contents; Brief Chronology of the New Kingdom; Abbreviations and Symbols; Foreword; Introduction; Continuity and Change; PART ONE: Monumental Inscriptions; I. Inscriptions from Private Tombs; The Autobiography of Ahmose Son of Abana; The...
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Cover; Contents; Brief Chronology of the New Kingdom; Abbreviations and Symbols; Foreword; Introduction; Continuity and Change; PART ONE: Monumental Inscriptions; I. Inscriptions from Private Tombs; The Autobiography of Ahmose Son of Abana; The Prayers of Paheri; The Installation of the Vizier Rekhmire; II. Inscriptions from Royal Monuments; Obelisk Inscriptions of Queen Hatshepsut; From the Annals of Thutmose III; The Poetical Stela of Thutmose III; The Great Sphinx Stela of Amenhotep II at Giza; Stela of Amenhotep III; The Later Boundary Stelae of Amenhotep IV Akhenaten Dedication Inscriptions of Seti IThe Kadesh Battle Inscriptions of Ramses II; The Poetical Stela of Merneptah (Israel Stela); PART TWO: Hymns, Prayers, and a Harper's Song; The Great Hymn to Osiris; Two Hymns to the Sun-God; Hymns and Prayers from El-Amarna; The Short Hymn to the Aten; Two Hymns and a Prayer in the Tomb of Ay; The Great Hymn to the Aten; A Prayer and a Hymn of General Haremhab; Three Penitential Hymns from Deir el-Medina; Votive Stela of Nebre with Hymn to Amen-Re; Votive Stela of Neferabu with Hymn to Mertseger; Votive Stela of Neferabu with Hymn to Ptah Prayers Used as School TextsPraise of Amen-Re; Prayer to Amun; Prayer to Amun; Prayer to Thoth; Prayer to Thoth; A Harper's Song from the Tomb of Neferhotep; PART THREE: From the Book of the Dead; Chapters 23, 30B, 43, 59, 77, 105, 109; Chapter 125; PART FOUR: Instructions; The Instruction of Any; The Instruction of Amenemope; PART FIVE: Be a Scribe; Papyrus Lansing: A Schoolbook; The Immortality of Writers; PART SIX: Love Poems; From Papyrus Chester Beatty I; From Papyrus Harris 500; From the Cairo Vase 1266 + 25218; PART SEVEN: Tales; The Destruction of Mankind; The Doomed Prince The Two BrothersTruth and Falsehood; Horus and Seth; The Report of Wenamun; Indexes; I. Divinities; II. Kings and Queens; III. Personal Names; IV. Geographical and Ethnical Terms; V. Egyptian Words; VI. Some Major Concepts First published in 1973 - and followed by Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 - this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world's earliest civilizations. Volume I outlines the early and gradual evolution of Egyptian literary genres, including biographical and historical inscriptions carved on stone, the various classes of literary works written with pen on papyrus, and the mortuary literature that focuses on life after death. Introduced with a new foreword by Antonio Loprieno. Volume II sho