File:Instructions of Kagemni facsimile (Prisse papyrus).png

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English: A facsimile of the start of the Prisse Papyrus, showing the complete hieratic text of the Instructions of Kagemni.
Date c. 1900 BCE
Source Facsimile of a papyrus by an anonymous ancient Egyptian scribe c. 1900 BCE, as reproduced in Le Papyrus Prisse et ses variantes (Gustave Jéquier, 1911).
Author Anonymous scribe. Pseudepigraphically ascribed to a vizier of the pharaoh Huni, but probably actually of a later (Middle Kingdom) date.

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A facsimile of the start of the Prisse Papyrus, showing the complete hieratic text of the Instructions of Kagemni.

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