A tale of woe : from a hieratic papyrus in the A. S. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow

Author(s)

• Caminos, Ricardo Augusto
• Gosudarstvennyĭ muzeĭ izobrazitelʹnykh iskusstv imeni A.S. Pushkina

Bibliographic Information

A tale of woe : from a hieratic papyrus in the A. S. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow

by Ricardo A. Caminos

Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, 1977

Note

Includes translation

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

'A Tale of Woe' is the earliest known literary composition which uses an imaginary letter as a vehicle for a fictional narrative. It gives an account of all the ills of an Egyptian rural community under misrule.

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Details

• NCID: BA66375788
• ISBN:
  • 0900416092
• LCCN: 78308663
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: 99 p., [6] fold. leaves, [5] leaves of plates
• Size: 35 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PJ1735
  • DC : 417/.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Tales -- Egypt
  • LCSH : Egyptian language -- Papyri, Hieratic