The text is also the most consciously “literary” of Middle Egyptian compositions, replete with metaphors and carefully crafted sentences. Now the peasant spoke these words during the time of his Majesty, the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Nebkaure the justified. An unusual blend of two genres, stories and wisdom texts, it begins and ends as a story but its bulk is devoted to nine lengthy discourses on the nature of Maat, which are the reason for its existence. The original was composed in the first half of Dyn. 56, above), B2 and Bt are contemporary or slightly later (Parkinson 1991, xxvi), and R dates to the first part of Dyn. Vogelsang and Gardiner 1908 Parkinson 1991.ī1 can be dated to the coregency of Senwosret III and Amenemhat III (p. Written horizontally except for three columns. This copy preserves the beginning of the text the end is lost. It is written in vertical columns except for the list of goods (Bt 1–14). In the story, a peasant named Khun-Anup is beaten and robbed by Nemtynakht, a wealthy landowner, who then tells him there is no use in complaining to the authorities because no one will listen to a poor man. This copy preserves the beginning of the composition except for the opening lines (R 2, 1–8, 6). The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant is a literary work from the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2040-1782 BCE) which illustrates the value society placed on the concept of justice and equality under the law.
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All structured data from the file namespace is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License all unstructured text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License additional terms may apply. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. 3025 The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant B2.” This page was last edited on 10 June 2022, at 18:49. Parkinson 1991 Parkinson 2012a, CD folder “Pap. It is written exclusively in vertical columns on the recto. The papyrus as preserved contains the end of the composition (from B1 263) and is the only copy to preserve the final lines (after B1 357). 3023 The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant B1.” This papyrus was written by the same scribe who wrote the B manuscript of Sinuhe. The beginning of the composition is lost (to R 2, 3) and the text breaks off before the end (B2 91–142). It is attested in several Middle Kingdom copies, all in hieratic on papyri: A s a work of literature, this composition is second in importance only to the Story of Sinuhe.
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