Egyptian Middle Kingdom

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Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him.
No one goes away and then comes back.

The Song of the Harper

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Original Citation

Anonymous. Tomb of King Intef, n.d., stanza 10.

Current Citation

Anonymous. "Song of the Harper." The Literature of Ancient Egypt, edited and introduction by William Kelly Simpson, translated by Robert T. K. Ritner, William Kelly Simpson, Vincent A. Tobin and Edward F. Wente, Jr. Yale University Press, 2003, stanza 10.

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Ptahhotep. The Maxims of Ptahhotep. c. 2375, maxim 1.

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Ptahhotep. The Maxims of Ptahhotep. c. 2375, maxim 34.

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Ptahhotep. The Maxims of Ptahhotep. c. 2375, maxim 25.

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Herakleopolitan FIP King, Kheti III (Wahkare Akhtoy III); attributed. The Instruction of Merikare. The Leningrad Papyrus, 1116A, n.d.

Current Citation

Herakleopolitan FIP King, Kheti III (Wahkare Akhtoy III); attributed. "The Instruction of Merikare." Ancient Egyptian Literature, translated by Miriam Lichtheim. University of California Press, 2019, parable 8.