Coptic decrees

Protective decree of Pepi II for the Temple of Min in Koptos .

The Koptos decrees comprise 20 complete or fragmentary copies of ancient Egyptian royal decrees from the late 6th and 8th dynasties . The documents recorded in stone include administrative and recognition decrees, as well as royal letters. They reflect the importance of the city of Koptos as well as the family of the official Schemai in the late Old Kingdom . The texts are considered to be the most important source for diplomacy and administration in the Old Kingdom and the 8th Dynasty.

The individual texts are in Egyptology to distinguish capital letters of the Latin alphabet numbered, so are labeled Koptos A to Koptos R .

literature

• Hans Goedicke : Coptic decrees . In: Wolfgang Helck (Ed.): Lexicon of Egyptology . tape III . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-447-02100-4 , p. 740 .
• Kurt Sethe : Documents of the Old Kingdom . Ed .: Georg Steindorff (=  documents of Egyptian antiquity . First section, Volume I). JC Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1933, p. 214, 280–307 ( PDF; 10.6 MB ( memento of November 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )).