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Tale of Sinuhe (Middle Kingdom Egyptian narrative tradition, c. 1900–1700 BCE)

Tale of Sinuhe (Middle Kingdom Egyptian narrative tradition, c. 1900–1700 BCE)

  1. Twelfth Dynasty sets Middle Kingdom literary culture

    Labels: Twelfth Dynasty, Middle Egyptian, scribal education

  2. Amenemhat I and Senusret I share rule

    Labels: Amenemhat I, Senusret I, co-regency

  3. Death of Amenemhat I anchors the plot

    Labels: Death of, royal court, Sinuhe

  4. Composition of the Tale of Sinuhe begins circulating

    Labels: Tale of, Twelfth Dynasty, first-person narrative

  5. Sinuhe’s exile narrative reflects Egypt’s Asiatic frontier

    Labels: Retjenu, Asiatic frontier, Sinuhe

  6. Royal pardon and return-to-Egypt ending becomes model

    Labels: royal pardon, homecoming, funerary practice

  7. Earliest surviving manuscript tradition appears under Amenemhat III

    Labels: Amenemhat III, manuscript tradition, Middle Kingdom

  8. Papyrus Berlin 3022 copied in hieratic script

    Labels: Papyrus Berlin, hieratic script, manuscript

  9. Ramesseum papyri preserve Tale of Sinuhe excerpts

    Labels: Ramesseum papyri, P Ramesseum, The Eloquent

  10. New Kingdom copies show Sinuhe used in scribal training

    Labels: New Kingdom, ostracon, scribal training

  11. Quibell’s Ramesseum excavations recover literary material

    Labels: Quibell excavations, Ramesseum, archaeology

  12. Gardiner publishes major scholarly study and translation

    Labels: Alan H, scholarly study, translation

  13. Lichtheim’s anthology makes Sinuhe widely accessible in English

    Labels: Miriam Lichtheim, anthology, English translation