Papyrus Prisse
The Papyrus Prisse was named after Émile Prisse d'Avesnes , who discovered it in the necropolis of Thebes-West , "near the tomb of Enintef, in the section called Drag Abu-Naqqa" and published it in 1847. The papyrus is now kept in the French National Library ( Bibliothèque nationale de France ).
The papyrus in hieratic script is part of ancient Egyptian literature and contains two teachings that are called wisdom or life teachings: the teaching for Kagemni , but only the end, and the teaching of Ptahhotep , also called the maxim of Ptahhotep . It probably dates to the 13th dynasty , although it is assumed that both the incomplete text of the teaching for Kagemni and the teaching of Ptahhotep date from the time of the Old Kingdom .
literature
- Hellmut Brunner : The Egyptians' books of wisdom. Lessons for Life. Weltbild-Verlag, Augsburg 1997, ISBN 978-3-86047-238-5 .
- Franz Joseph Lauth: The author Kadjimna 5400 years ago . In: Meeting of the philosophical-philological class on December 4, 1869 . Online on Google Books , accessed March 3, 2016.
Web links
- The teaching of Ptahhotep (with hieroglyphics and hieratic extracts)
- The teaching of Ptahhotep (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emile Prisse d'Avesnes: Fac-similé d'un papyrus égyptien en caractères hiératiques trouvé à Thèbes donné à la Bibliothèque royale de Paris , Paris, Impr.lithographique de Lemercier, 1847 online on SUDOC , accessed on December 20, 2015.
- ↑ Wolfgang Helck , Eberhard Otto : Small Lexicon of Egyptology. 4th, revised edition, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04027-0 , pp. 220-221.