Writings From Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson

Author:Toby Wilkinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Ancient, Egypt, Social Science, Archaeology, General, Literary Collections
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2016-08-25T05:02:45+00:00

Said by the servant of the funerary cult Heqanakht to Merisu:

As for all our land that is inundated, you are to cultivate it – take heed. All my people, as well as you. Look, I will hold you accountable for it.1 Be extra dutiful in cultivating. Watch out2 that my barley-seed is guarded and that all my property is guarded. Look, I will hold you accountable for it. Watch out for all my property.

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Now, didn’t I say that Sneferu has grown up! Watch out for him. Give him an income; and greetings to Sneferu, my pride and joy,3 a thousand times, a million times. Watch out (as) I have written. Now when my land is inundated, he should cultivate it along with you and Anubis4 – take heed – and Sahathor.5 Watch out for him. Send him to me after cultivating. Have him bring me two sacks of emmer together with (whatever) barley6 you can find, but only out of your surplus revenue until you get to harvest-time. [Don’t] ignore anything I have written to you about. Look, this is the year7 when a man should act for his master!

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Watch out for Anubis and Sneferu. You live by them and you die by them.8 Watch out. Look, there is nothing more (important) with you in that house. Don’t ignore it!

Now have that housemaid Senen thrown out of my house – see to it – on whatever day Sahathor reaches you. Look, if she spends a single day (more) in my house, act! You are the one who lets her do bad things to my wife. Look, how have I made it distressful for you? What did she do against you (to make) you hate her?

And greetings to my mother Ipi a thousand times, a million times. And greetings to Hetepet9 and the whole household and Nefret.10 Now what is this, bad things being done to my wife? Enough of it! Are you given equal rights with me?11 It would be good if you stopped.

And have a letter brought explaining what is collected from those (debts) of Perhaa. See to it! Don’t ignore it!

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