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Papyrus fragment of the “Necropolis Journal”

The papyrus preserves on the recto an extract of a 'Necropolis journal' dated to the 16th regnal year of Ramesses IX. The scribe noted information day by day. The majority of the entries refers to deliveries of items, such as lamps, ointment, fish, and rations. The scribe listed also days of inactivity of the workforce due to the presence of Lybians or to the lacking rations. The first lines of the recto text are not only written bigger, but the handwriting is more accurate and almost calligraphic.  The text gets then progressively smaller and more cursive when proceeding towards its end.

The verso preserves different administrative texts, above all accounts of deliveries of copper, spikes, and garments.

Check out more about the texts and ancient Egyptian scribal practice in general in the second Episode on Kemet-L'antico Egitto in Podcast