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Contents BriefChronology ofthe New Kingdom X Abbreviations and Symbols Xt Introduction Continuity and Change 3 PART ONE: Monumental Inscriptions I. Inscriptions from Private Tombs II The Autobiography of Ahmose Son of Abana 12 The Prayers of Paheri 15 The Installation of the Vizier Rekhmire 21 II. Inscriptions from Royal Monuments 25 Obelisk Inscriptions of Queen Hatshepsut 25 From the Annals of Thutmose III 29 The Poetical Stela of Thutmose III 35 The Great Sphinx Stela of Amenhotep II at Giza 39 Stela of Amenhotep III 43 The Later Boundary Stelae of Amenhotep IV Akhenaten 4R Dedication Inscriptions of Seti I 52 The Kadesh Battle Inscriptions of Ramses II 57 The Poetical Stela of Merneptah (Israel Stela) 73 PART TWO: Hymns, Prayers, and a Harper's Song The Great Hymn to Osiris 81 Two Hymns to the Sun-God 86 Hymns and Prayers from El-Arnarna 89 The Short Hymn to the Aten 90 Two Hymns and a Prayer in the Tomb of Ay 92 The Great Hymn to the Aten 96 A Prayer and a Hymn of General Haremhab 100 VII viii CONTENTS CONTENTS ix Three Penitential Hymns from Deir el-Medina 104 Indexes Votive Stela of Nebre with Hymn to Amen-Re 105 1. Divinities 233 Votive Stela of Neferabu with Hymn to Mertseger 107 II. Kings and Queens 234 Votive Stela of Neferabu with Hymn to Ptah 109 II I. Personal Names 235 Prayers Used as School Texts 110 IV, Geographical and Ethnical Terms 236 Praise of Amen-Re III V, Egyptian Words 238 Prayer to Amun III VI. Some Major Concepts 239 Prayer to Amun 112 Prayer to Thoth 113 Prayer to Thoth 114 A Harper's Song from the Tomb of Neferhotep 115 PART THREE: From the Book of the Dead 119 Chapters 23, 30B, 43, 59, 77, 105, 109 120 Chapter 125 124 PART FOUR: Instructions The Instruction of Any 135 The Instruction of Amenemope 146 PART FIVE: Be a Scribe 167 Papyrus Lansing: A Schoolbook 168 The Immortality of Writers 175 PART SIX: Love Poems 181 From Papyrus Chester Beatty I 182 From Papyrus Harris 500 189 From the Cairo Vase 1266 + 25218 193 PART SEVEN: Tales The Destruction of Mankind 197 The Doomed Prince 200 The Two Brothers 203 Truth and Falsehood 21 I Horus and Seth 214 The Report of Wenamun 224 Ablrreviations and Symbols BriefChronology of the New Kingdom Dynasties 18-20, ca. 1550-1080 B.C. AEO A. H. Gardiner. Ancient Egyptian Onomastica. 3 vols, Eighteenth Dynasty ca. 1550-1305 Oxford, 1947. Nebpehtire Ahmose AJSL American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. Djeserkare Amenhotep I ANET Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, Aakheperkare Thutmose I (1506-1494) ed. J. B. Pritchard. Princeton, 1950; 2d ed., 1955; Aakheperenre Thutmose II 3d ed., 1969. Makare Hatshepsut ASAE Annales du Service des Antiquitis de l'Egypte. Menkheperre Thutmose III (1468-1438) BAR J. H. Breasted. Ancient Records of Egypt. 5 vols. Chi Aakheprure Amenhotep II cago, 1906-1907. Reprint New York, 1962. Menkheprure Thutmose 1V Bibliotheque Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale du Caire. Nebmare Amenhotep III d'etude Bibliotheque d'etude, Neferkheprure Arnenhotep IV Akhenaten (1365-1349) BIFAO Bulletin de l'Institut Francais d'Archiolagie Orientde. Bonnet, Nebkhcprure Tutankhamun H. Bonnet. Reallexikon der agyptischen Religionsgeschich Kheperkheprure Ay RARG teo Berlin, 1952. Brunner Djeserkheprure Haremhab E. Brunner-Traut. Altagyptische Marchen. Dusseldorf Traut, and Cologne, 1963. 2d ed., 1965. Nineteenth Dynasty Mdrchen Menmare Seti I Caminos, R. A. Caminos. Late-Egyptian Miscellanies. Brown Usermare-sotpenre Ramses II LEM Egyptalogical Studies, I. London, 1954. Banere-meramun Merneptah CdE Chronique d'Egypte. CRAlBL Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Inscriptions ct Belies Twentieth Dynasty ca. 1195-1080 Usermare-meramun Ramses III letlres. Userrnare-sekheperenre Ramses V Davies, N. de G. Davies. The Rock Tombs o{EI Amaraa. 6 parts. Neferkare-sotpenre Ramses IX Amarna Egypt Exploration Society, Archaeological Survey, 13-18. London, 1903-1908. Menmare-sotpenptah Rarnses XI ( II 10-1080) Edel, E. Edel. Zu den Inschriften au] den [ahreszeitenreliefs Note: Only kings named in the texts Of notes of this vol Inschnften der "Weltkammer" aus dem Sonnenheiligtum des Niuserre. ume are listed here, and only a few regnal dates are given Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in to serve as guideposts. Gottingen. Phil.-hist. Kl., 1961 no. 8 and 1963 nos. 4-5. Gottingen. 1961-1964. Erman, A. Erman. The Literature ofthe Ancient Egyptians, trans. Literature into English by A. M. Blackman. London, 1927, Reprint New York, 1966 as The Ancient Egyptians; A Sourcebook of Their Writings. xi x xii ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS xiii Erman, A. Erman, Denksteme aus der thebanischen Grdberstadi. Melanges Orient Ancun. Institut Francais d' Archeologie Orien Denksteine Sitzungsberichte der Berliner Akademie der Wissen Maspero 1 tale du Caire. Mernoires, 66. Cairo, 1934-1938. schaften. Phil.-hist. KI., 1911, No. 49, pp. 1086-1110 Moller, G. Moller. Hieratische Lesestucke [iir den akademischen and pl. 16. Berlin, 1911. Lesestiicke Gebrauch. 3 fascicles. Berlin, 1927. Reprint, 1961. Fecht, G. Fecht, Literarische Zeugnisse zur "Personlichen Fromm Muller, W. M. Muller. Die Liebespoesie der allen Agypter. Leipzig, Zeugnisse igkeit" in Agypten. Abhandlungen der Heidelberger Liebespoesie 1899. Akademie der Wissenschaften. Phil.-bist. KI., 1965 OLZ Orientalistische Literaturzeitung. no. I. Heidelberg, 1965. Pierret, P. Pierret, Recueil d'inscriotions inedites du Musee Fgyp Galling Archiiologie und Altes Testament: Festschrift filr Kurt Recueil tun du Louvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1874-1878. Festschrift Galling zum 8. Januar 1970, ed. A. Kuschke and PM Topographical Bibliographs of Ancient Egyptian Hiero E. Kutsch. Tubingen, 1970. glyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings, by B. Porter and Galling, Textbuch zur Geschichte Israels, ed. K. Galling. 2d ed., R. L. B. Moss. 7 vols. Oxford, 1927-1951. 2d ed., Textbuck Tubingen, 1968. 1960-. Gardiner, A. H. Gardiner. The Lilrrary of A. Chester Beatty Posener, G. Poscner. Catalogue des ostraca hienuiques liueraires Chester The Chester Beatty Papyri, No. I. London, 1931. Ostr. hier. de Deir el Medmeh; 2 vols. Institut Francais d'Arche Beatty I ologie Orientaledu Caire. Documentsde fouilles, 1and Gardiner, A. H. Gardiner. Egypt of the Pharaohs. Oxford, 1961. 18. Cairo, ]935-1972. Egypt PSBA Proceedings of the Society ofBiblical Archaeology. Gardiner, A. H. Gardiner. Egyptian Grammar. Oxford, 1927; RdE Revue d'Egyptologie. Grammar 3d ed., 1957. RT Recueil de trauaux relatifs ala philologie et al'archeologie Gardiner, A. H. Gardiner. Hieratic PafrYri in the British Museum, egyptiennes et assyriennes. Hieratic Third Series: Chester Beatty Gift. 2 vols. London, 1935. Sagesses Les Sagesses du proche-orient ancien. Colloque de Stras PafrYri bourg 17-19 mai 1962. Paris, 1963. Gardiner, A. H. Gardiner. Late-Egyptian Miscellanies. Bibliotheca Sandman, M. Sandman. Textsfrom the Time of Akhenaten. Biblio LEM Aegyptiaca, 7. Brussels, 1937. Akhenaten theca Aegyptiaca, 8. Brussels, 1938. Gardiner, A. H. Gardiner. Late-Egyptian Stories. Bibliotheca Schott Festschrift filr Siegfried Schott zu seinem 70. Geburtstag, LES Aegyptiaca, I. Brussels, 1932. Festschrift ed. W. Schenkel. Wiesbaden, 1968. Gilbert, P. Gilbert. La Poesie egyptienne. 2d ed., Brussels, 1949. Schott, S. Schott. Altiigyptisehe Liebeslieder, mit Miirchen und Poesie Liebeslieder Liebesgeschiduen: Zurich, 1950. Heick, W. Heick. Urkunden der 18. Dynastie: Ubersetzungen Simpson, The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Ubersetzung zu den Heften 17-22. Berlin, 1961. Literature instructions, and Poetry, ed. W. K. Simpson, with trans Hieroglyphic British Museum. Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stelae lations by R. O. Faulkner, E. F. Wente, Jr., and W. K. Texts etc. 2d ed., London, 1961--. Simpson. New Haven, 1972. 2d ed., 1973. JARCE Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. 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Chicago, 1969. xiv ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS ZA Zeitschriit fur Assyriologie und uorderasiatische Archiiolo {!;leo ZAS Zeitschrift fur iig),ptische Sprache und Altertumskunde. ZDPV Zeitschrift des deutschen Paldstina-Vereins. Half brackets r 1 are used instead of question marks to signify doubt. Square brackets [] enclose restorations. Angle brackets <> enclose words omitted by the scribe. Parentheses () enclose additions in the English translations. A row of three dots ... indicates the omission in the English trans- lation of one or two words. A row of six dots indicates a longer omission. A row of three dashes --- indicates a shan lacuna in the text. A row of six dashes ------ indicates