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Monday, December 19, 2016

1050 BC-Story of Wenamun

Wenamun-papyrus.pngThe Story of Wenamun (alternately known as the Report of WenamunThe Misadventures of WenamunVoyage of Unamūn, or [informally] as just Wenamun) is a literary text written in hieratic in the Late Egyptian language. It is only known from one incomplete copy discovered in 1890 at al-HibahEgypt, and subsequently purchased in 1891 in Cairo by the Russian Egyptologist Vladimir Goleniščev.[1] It was found in a jar together with the Onomasticon of Amenope and the Tale of Woe.
The papyrus is now in the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine ArtsMoscow, and officially designated as Papyrus Pushkin 120. The hieratic text is published by Korostovcev 1960, and the hieroglyphic text is published by Gardiner 1932 (as well as on-line).


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