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Ancient Egypt is well known for its towering monuments and magnificent statuary, but other aspects of its civilization are less well known, especially its written texts. Now Texts from the Pyramid Age provides ready access to new translations of a representative selection of texts ranging from the historically significant to the repetitive formulae of the tomb inscriptions from Old Kingdom Egypt...

house.” May your son set up your house in the way you set up the house of your father! (13) O Sankhenptah my father, may it please you to have Ini summoned to you to seize the house of Anankhi born to Wabut! B. On a Bowl from Qau in Upper Egypt This text dates probably to the end of the Old Kingdom or First Intermediate Period. Now London, University College UC 16163. Inside (1) Shepsi addresses his father Iyenkhenmut: (2) This (letter) is a reminder of your going to the prison (?) at the place where
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