21st Dynasty

An ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti, with a number of variant spellings) is a small figurine of ancient Egypt included in the grave goods of the dead. The figurine was believed to magically animate after the dead had been judged, then work for the dead person as a servant or substitute labourer in the fields of Osiris. The ushabti is also named the "follower" or "answerer", because it "answered" for the deceased person and performed all the routine chores of daily life for its master. Some tombs had the floor covered with a great many ushabti figurines, produce ...

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The Story of Wenamun (alternately known as the Report of Wenamun, The Misadventures of Wenamun, or [informally] as just Wenamun) is a literary text written in hieratic in the Late Egyptian language. It is only known from one incomplete copy discovered in 1890 at al-Hibah, Egypt, and subsequently purchased in 1891 in Cairo by the Russian Egyptologist Vladimir Semenovič Goleniščev (Caminos 1977:1). The papyrus is now in the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and officially designated as Pap ...

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There is a small possibility that Shoshenq II was the son of Shoshenq I. Several bracelets from Shoshenq II's tomb mention Shoshenq I as either Hedjkheperre Setepenre Shoshenq I or Chief of the Ma--which was Shoshenq I's position before he became king. These items may be evidence of a possible filial link between the two men. Also, a forensic examination of Shoshenq II's body by Douglas Derry reveals him to be a man in his 50's when he died. Hence, Shoshenq II may have outlived Osorkon I's 35 Year reign and ruled Egypt before Takelot ...

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It was once widely believed that the Story of Wenamun was an actual historical account, written by Wenamun as a report regarding his travels. However, literary analysis conducted by Egyptologists since the 1980s (Helck 1986) indicates that it is a work of historical fiction, a view now generally accepted by most professionals working on the text. For details, see Baines 1999; Scheepers 1992; Egberts 2001; Sass 2002; Schipper 2005. The late Jaroslav Cerny found that the text had no corrections, and was apparently written without any in ...

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Story of Wenamun, Story of Wenamun - The text, Story of Wenamun - Analysis, Story of Wenamun - Importance of the document, Story of Wenamun - Websites

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The text is set in a "Year 5", generally taken to be Year 5 of the so-called Renaissance of Pharaoh Ramesses XI, the tenth and last ruler of the Twentieth dynasty of Ancient Egypt; this was equivalent to Ramesses XI's 19th regnal year. Egberts (1991) argues, however, that the story is set in the 5th regnal year of Smendes I, the Delta-based founder of the 21st Dynasty. As this latter view assumes the High Priest Herihor followed Piankh (their relative order is normally reversed), it has n ...

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Story of Wenamun, Story of Wenamun - The text, Story of Wenamun - Analysis, Story of Wenamun - Importance of the document, Story of Wenamun - Websites

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