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Mar 2015

27m 1s

44: The Shipwrecked Sailor

About this episode

Interlude: A Tale of the Sea. Sometime during the Twelfth Dynasty, a folk-tale was composed (or became popular) that would echo through the ages as one of Egypt’s most enduring tales...

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Select Bibliography:

W.K. Simpson (editor), The Literature of Ancient Egypt, 2006 (Archive.org Pdf Copy).Primary translation for this episode.
Peter der Manuelian, “Interpreting the Shipwrecked Sailor,” in Festschrift für Emmer Brunner-Traut (1992). Free Online Copy.
John Baines, “Interpreting the Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology76 (1990). Online pdf.
Fordham University – The Shipwrecked Sailor, online article.
St. Andrews University – Hieroglyphic text, transliteration and translation.

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