Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Background of Ancient Egyptian Civilization
Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents
Chronology of Egypt from the Predynastic Period to the Arab Conquest
DOCUMENTS FROM ANCIENT EGYPTDomestic Life and Personal Beliefs
1. Training Children: A Father's Advice to His Son (Papyrus Insinger)
2. Advice on Marriage: Found a Family (The Instruction of Any (Papyrus Boulaq 4))
3. Family Values: Be Grateful to Your Mother (The Instruction of Any (Papyrus Boulaq 4))
4. How a Man Should Treat His Wife: Treat Thy Wife Well (The Instruction of Any (Papyrus Boulaq 4))
5. The Status of Royal Women: The God's Wife of Amun (Statue Inscription of Harwa)
6. Love Songs: The Sayings of Great Happiness (Papyrus Chester Beatty I)
7. The Contendings of Horus and Seth: A Homosexual Encounter (Papyrus Chester Beatty I)
8. Offerings for the Tomb Owner: The Coffin Texts (Coffin Text of Nakht-Ankh)
9. A Skeptical View of the Afterlife: The Song from the Tomb of King Antef (Intef)
Economic Life
10. Justice for Everyone: The Story of the Eloquent Peasant (Papyri Berlin 3023, 3025, 10499; Papyrus British Museum 10274)
11. A New Royal Residence: Poem in Praise of the City of Ramesses II (Papyrus Anastasi II)
12. A Response to Social Upheaval: The Admonitions of Ipuwer (Papyrus Leiden 344)
13. A Trading Venture: The Report of Wenamun (Papyrus Moscow 120)
14. The Advantages of the Scribal Profession: The Satire of the Trades (Papyrus Sallier II, Papyrus Anastasi VII)
15. Financial Transactions: The Report of Wenamun (Papyrus Moscow 120)
16. Slavery and Servitude (The Annals of Tuthmosis III)
17. Expeditions to Nubia (The Autobiographical Inscription of Harkhuf)
18. Craftsmen's Tools and Working Conditions: The Satire of the Trades (Papyrus Sallier II, Papyrus Anastasi VII)
Intellectual Life
19. Educating Boys: The Instruction of Ptah-hotep (Papyrus Prisse)
20. Health and Medicine (The Edwin Smith Medical Papyrus).
21. Personal Piety (Votive Stela of Neferabu with Prayer to Ptah)
22. Praising the Role of a Scribe: Advantages of a Teaching Career (Papyrus Lansing)
23. Writing as a Means of Communication (Papyrus Chester Beatty IV)
24. Mathematics: Knowledge and Application (The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus)
25. Calendar of a Military Expedition (The Israel Stela/The Poetical Stela of Merneptah)
Material Life
26. An Agricultural Disaster (The Famine Stela)
27. An Offering Which the King Gives: The Coffin Texts (Coffin Text of Nakht-Ankh)
28. A New House for the Teacher: A School Text (Papyrus Lansing)
29. An Adventure at Sea: The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (Papyrus Leningrad 1115)
Political Life
30. Advice on Government: The Instruction of King Amenemhet I for his Son Senusret I (Papyrus Millingen)
31. Behavior toward Superiors, Equals, and Inferiors: The Instruction of Ptah-hotep (Papyrus Prisse)
32. The Strategy of Warfare: The Kadesh Battle Inscription of Ramesses II (The Poem: Temples of Abydos, Luxor, Karnak, Abu Simbel, and the Ramesseum)
33. Weapons of Warfare: Equipment of a War Chariot (Schoolboys' Fictitious Model Letters (Papyrus Koller))
34. Taking Booty at the Siege of Megiddo (The Annals of Tuthmosis III)
Recreational Life
35. Advice to Artists and Intellectuals: The Wisdom Instruction of Ptah-hotep (Papyrus Prisse)
36. Worship through Dancing (Hymn to Hathor, Hall of Offerings, Temple of Denderah)
37. The Role of Music in Divine Worship (The Shorter Hymn to the Aten, Tomb of Ay, Tell el-Amarna)
38. Sacred Drama at the Temple of Edfu: The Battle between Good and Evil (The Triumph of Horus, Temple of Edfu)
39. The New Year Festival (The Victory Stela of King Piye)
40. The Dangers of Drinking Beer: Exhortations and Warnings to Schoolboys (Papyri Anastasi IV, V, and Sallier I)
41. A Sporting Pharaoh (The Great Sphinx Stela of Amenhotep II at Giza)
Religious Life
42. Creation Mythology: The Memphite Theology (The Shabaka Stone)
43. Atenism, Monotheism, and a Religious Revolution (The Great Hymn to the Aten in the Tomb of Ay, Tell el-Amarna)
44. The Ritual Use of the Egyptian Temple: The King Presents Food Offerings to the Gods (Gallery of the Lists, Temple of Sety I, Abydos)
45. Political Propaganda: The Tale of King Khufu and the Magicians (Papyrus Westcar)
46. Magical Treatment of Disease (The Edwin Smith Medical Papyrus)
47. A Sacred Space: Temple Architecture (The Stela of Amenhotep III from His Mortuary Temple in Western Thebes)
48. Preparing the Burial: Techniques of Mummification (Herodotus, The Histories, Book 2: Paras. 86–88)
49. The Day of Judgment (The Book of the Dead, Chapter 125 (Several Texts))
50. The King's Relationship with the Gods (The Pyramid Texts (Several Pyramids))
51. Advocating Suicide? The Dispute between a Man and His Soul (Papyrus Berlin 3024)
Appendix 1: Biographical Sketches of Important Individuals Mentioned in the Text
Appendix 2: Glossary of Terms Mentioned in the Text
Selected Bibliography
Index
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