Theban Ostraca

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Excerpt from Theban Ostraca: Edited From the Originals, Now Mainly in the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, and the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Part I. Hieratic Texts, Part II. Demotic Texts, Part III. Greek Texts, Part IV. Coptic Texts Perhaps the beginning of a lost book of didactic nature. Why the scribe wrote the words 'thoth, master of the hieroglyphs' in rec/o I is not clear. Lines 2 - 3 give the normal beginning of a book of this kind Beginning of the instruction which a man made for [his] son. [give] thy heart to that which I say to thee, act according to. The remaining lines of the recto are too fragmentary to be intelligible. Note the rare word mm 'grief' in 7, as also above in A 1. 2. The verso is no less obscure than the recto we appear to have the ends of the lines complete. In 4 there is the trace of a date day 13 being the usual memorandum of the scribe as to when the following words were written. Then follows a sentence of proverbial (p) nature, He who is free from changes is 3. Lord of wealth at this point the text comes abruptly to an end. A 3. Limestone, inscribed on one side only in a large Ramesside literary hand. Red verse-points. Height 16 cm., breadth 16 cm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.