- Papyrus Hood (hieratic)
Papyrus Hood is a
hieratic papyrus from the time of 21st Dynasty Pharaoh Amenemope, 993 -984 BC . The papyrus is at theBritish Museum , (no. BM EA 10202), and is a hieratic manuscript which contains a copy of: "TheOnomasticon of Amenope ." This Third Intermediate Period work is known from 8 other fragmentary copies, and relates back to the lateNew Kingdom era.It is notable that the papyrus is an onomasticon, but it also lists words, that are not known from any other sources, yet their meanings are known, ( i.e. 'snow').
ee also
*Amenemope
*Onomastics
*Prosopography References
*Parkinson, R., et alia, "Cracking Codes, the
Rosetta Stone , and Decipherment," (Berkeley: University of California Press, c. 1999), p. 61.
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