The UCL Lahun Papyri: Letters

Description

The University College London Lahun (Middle Kingdom) papyri constitute one of the most remarkable harvests of papyri of any age. This volume communicates the content of the surviving letters and letter fragments from the Petrie excavations at Lahun in anaccessible and affordable format. The letters and fragments are from original letters: model letters, letter copies, and reports are reserved for future publications. The volume is intended not only for Egyptological researchers, but also for learners inhigher and further education. This mass of writing calls for a more nuanced appreciation of the roles of writing and reading, and the social reach of the written culture across the different classes, ages, genders inhabiting this architecture and landscape. (The reader will find three means of access to the original content: Printed pages with transcriptions, transliterations, and translations; A printed index; The entire collection of papyri in an accompanying download.) Front Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Preface The Lahun Papyri: Introduction 1889-1898 -- from discovery to the first publication The Lahun Papyri: history of the publication UCL Lahun Papyri -- list by lot numbers First Group of Previously Unpublished Letters: UC 32091B -- UC 32156B Letters Previously Published by Griffith: UC 32197 -- UC 32216 Second Group of Previously Unpublished Letters: UC 32271 -- UC 32364 Index of Letters Concordance of Griffith publication of letters and lot numbers with UC numbers Index of Ancient Egyptian Words Vocabulary Personal Names Titles and Occupations Kings Deities Place Names Dates