The Teaching of a Man for his Son

This didactic work is a literary composition in Middle Egyptian, of uncertain date. All surviving copies were written in the New Kingdom, but the style of language and echoes of other literary compositions date it to the Middle Kingdom (about 2025-1700 BC). No author is named on the surviving sources.

• Background information for Middle Kingdom literary compositions
• Principal sources
• Sources in the Petrie Museum
• Other sources
• Transliteration from Egyptian script into Latin-based alphabet/ Translation into English

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