The Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage from a Hieratic Papyrus in Leiden (Pap. Leiden 344 recto)
Translated by Alan H. Gardiner
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The door [-keepers] say: Let us go and plunder. The confectioners The 7oasherman refuses Q) to carry his load. The bird [-catchers] have drawn up in line of battle | The inhabitants}] of the Marshes carry shields. The brewers sad. A man looks upon his soft as his enemy;
lo(?) another. Come predestined for you in the tinu of Horns, in the age of [the Ennead] The virtnous tnan walks in mourningi^) on account of that which has happened in the land. The walks The tribes of tlic desertQ) have become Egyptians Q) ei’erywhere.
Two or three lines entirel}’ lost.
Forsooth, the face is pa/e{>) whichQ) the ancestors had foretold
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- The words
- Alan H. Gardiner's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 5 places
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own), in 2 places
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 9 places
- Other material that isn't the author's, in 5 places
- Printed ornaments and dividers
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 3 places
- Specks read as characters by the OCR (5 blocks)
- A preface, foreword or afterword, in 3 places
- Gardiner's footnotes to his commentary (“1) ...”) (50 blocks)
- The heading “APPENDIX”
- Gardiner's “ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.” to his own pages (“P. 8, line 12: for transgress read conform to.”) (20 blocks)
- The index
- The plates: Gardiner's hieroglyphic transcription in autography, read by the OCR as garble (748 blocks)
- Library stamp at the end of the scan