The Teaching of King Amenemhat I

Extracts on hieratic ostraca in the Petrie Museum:

(1) Pottery ostraca from the Ramesseum, Thebes West:

• UC Ramesseum 55 UC 32975
  
  
• UC Ramesseum 56 UC 32976
  
  
• UC Ramesseum 57 UC 32977
  
  
• UC Ramesseum 58 UC 32978
  
  
• UC Ramesseum 59 UC 32979
  
  
• UC Ramesseum 60 UC 32980
  
  
• UC Ramesseum 61 UC 32981
  
  
• UC Ramesseum 62 UC 32982
  
  
• UC Ramesseum 63 32983
  
  
• UC Ramesseum 97 UC 33016
  
  
• UC Ramesseum 102 UC 33020
  

(2) Limestone ostraca, probably all from Deir el-Medina,Thebes West

• UC 39629 Petrie Hieratic Ostraca 29
• UC 39653 Petrie Hieratic Ostraca 56
• UC 39654 Petrie Hieratic Ostraca 57
• UC 39663 Petrie Hieratic Ostraca 77
• UC 39672 Petrie Hieratic Ostraca 87

Other sources

Early Eighteenth Dynasty:

• Writing-board Brooklyn I
• Writing-board Brooklyn II
• Writing-board Carnarvon 5
• Mid-Eighteenth Dynasty, reign of Thutmose III and Hatshepsut:

Four limestone ostraca from the Theban tomb of Senenmut (Hayes 1942: nos. 142 to 145 Guksch 1998: 285)

Ostracon found at Malkata (Leahy1978: no. 180)

Late Eighteenth or perhaps early Nineteenth Dynasty: Pottery vessel base from Amarna, published by Parkinson 1999: 221-226

Late Nineteenth Dynasty manuscripts:

• British Museum EA 10185 Papyrus Sallier I
• British Museum EA 10182 Papyrus Sallier II
• Papyrus Berlin 3019
• Fragment, mentioned by Gardiner 1935: 140
• Ramesside Period, leather roll Louvre E 4920

Ramesside ostraca other than those in the Petrie Museum, cited in the Helck 1969 edition, pages 1-5:

• British Museum EA 5623
• British Museum EA 5638
• Brussels E 6445
• Cairo CG 25217 from the temple precinct of Thutmose III, Thebes West
• Cairo CG 25223 from Thebes West
• Cairo CG 25223bis
• Cairo CG 25223ter from Dendera
• Cairo JdE 91283 (Simpson 1995: 14 fig.11)
• Sixteen ostraca from Deir el-Medina: IFAO DeM 1007, 1018, 1020, 1021, 1035, 1039, 1081, 1092, 1093, 1101, 1103, 1175, 1196, 1204 1205, 2034
• Lisht ostracon - found in the shadow of the pyramid complex of Amenemhat I himself
• Seven ostraca formerly in the Michailides collection, numbers 20, 20bis, 23, 24, 50, 77, 80
• Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, ostraca Gardiner 322, 324, 348
• Ostracon Leipzig 7
• Ostracon published by Malinine1934: 63
• Ostraca Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 4468 and 5518
• Ostracon Toronto A9

Late Dynastic Period, papyrus fragment from Elephantine, Berlin 23045

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