Egyptian Diary by Richard Platt

Author:Richard Platt [Platt, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7636-7849-4
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2005-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

The threshing and winnowing will go on for days, but before sunset there was already a heap of grain taller than I am. The scribes watched as two sacks were filled with great ceremony. Then, with more prayers to Min, they carried the sacks on donkeys back to the city. One sack went into the common granary; the other was stored to sow as seed next planting season.

Twentieth day

Today the women finished a length of linen that they had been weaving for a month. Tamyt and Mother cut it from the loom and carefully rolled it. They then spent the WHOLE afternoon talking about what they will get in exchange for the cloth. Tamyt wants to barter it for a chair, “So that I do not have to squat on the floor like a servant when we eat.” But Mother wants to use it to pay the rent on our fields.

The argument did not end until it was time to prepare dinner, when the two of them were too busy bossing the cooks around (and too hot from the fire) to talk anymore.

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