Papyrus Lansing
Encyclopedia
Papyrus Lansing is ancient Egyptian writing made during the time of the reign of the pharoah called Senusret III
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(Papyrus Lansing:Translation with notes by A.M.Blackman & T.Eric Peet from JSTOR retrieved 20:25GMT 29.9.11 facsimiles-of-egyptian-hieratic-papyri-in-the-british-museum at WorldCat retrieved 20:28GMT 29.9.11)
Senusret III
Khakhaure Senusret III was a pharaoh of Egypt. He ruled from 1878 BC to 1839 BC, and was the fifth monarch of the Twelfth Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom. Among his achievements was the building of the Sisostris Canal...
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Specific Content of Papyrus
Thus translated by Caminos " You are worse than a bubalis on the desert that lives on running; it spends no midday ploughing and has never yet trodden the threshing-platform at all.It lives on the oxen's output,though it shares not (in their labour)External links
- Ancient Encyclopedia History article referenced from The Ancient World: Readings in Social and Cultural History by D. Brendan Nagle, Stanley M. Burstein retrieved 20:30-3GMT 29.9.11
- Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume II: The New Kingdom, Volume 2 By Miriam Lichtheim (1978 retrieved(from Googlebooks)20:48GMT 29.9.11)
(Papyrus Lansing:Translation with notes by A.M.Blackman & T.Eric Peet from JSTOR retrieved 20:25GMT 29.9.11 facsimiles-of-egyptian-hieratic-papyri-in-the-british-museum at WorldCat retrieved 20:28GMT 29.9.11)