Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: The article presents a writing tablet from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.It contains various administrative accounts as well as one of the earliest-known copies, in duplicate, of the initial lines of The Hymn to the Nile, written by different hands, probably made by a teacher and his student.The variants of the two copies are compared and analysed, and the use of writing boards in New Kingdom Egypt is outlined.Finally, the social context of the hymn is discussed.
Author: Fredrik Hagen
Institution: University of Copenhagen
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2183122832