Typeset by Jenny
Carrington
This typeset version of The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant
has been prepared from two major sources:
- Adrian de Buck, “Egyptian Readingbook – Exercises and Middle Egyptian
Texts,” which contains a range hieroglyphic texts suitable for students;
- Richard Parkinson, “The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant,” a valuable
source of the four extant manuscripts of the tale, and essential for
any serious study of the Eloquent Peasant.
Parkinson’s translation is now available in the Oxford World's Classics
paperback series: "The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems."
The links below are to images of the typeset hieroglyphic text.
Lines with numbers in round brackets (...) are from de Buck's Readingbook.
The new numbering system, in square brackets [...], and additional lines,
are from Parkinson's book.
A PDF version (3.4MB) of the above, compiled and kindly submitted to us by Malcolm Shawcross.
Works consulted:
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Adrian de Buck “Egyptian Readingbook – Exercises and
Middle Egyptian Texts” The Netherlands Institute for the Near East,
P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. 1977
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Richard Parkinson “The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant”
Griffith Institute. 1991 (Hieroglyphic text)
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Richard Parkinson “The Tale of Sinuhe and other Ancient
Egyptian poems” Oxford World’s Classics. 1997 (Translation)
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William Kelly Simpson “The Literature of Ancient Egypt”
Yale. 1972
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Miriam Lichtheim “Ancient Egyptian literature. Vol
1. The Old and Middle Kingdoms” Univ. of California Press. 1973
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R.O.Faulkner “A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian”
Griffith Institute. 1981
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