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Egyptian · travel report · c. 1075 BCE (21st Dynasty)

The Journey of Wenamun

Wenamun (narrator) — Egyptian

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MouseiaMusean translationMouseia’s complete machine-assisted Musean translation, made directly from the Egyptian, line for line, covering all 105 lines of Papyrus Moscow 120 (Golenischeff), in two columns; the papyrus breaks off before the end of the story, working from the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae transcription (hieroglyphs, transliteration and lemma glosses, with the TLA editors’ German sentence renderings as a comprehension aid; ORAEC release of the TLA corpus, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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MouseiaPlain English translationMouseia’s complete Plain English edition, made independently and directly from the same Egyptian text, line for line, covering all 105 lines of Papyrus Moscow 120 (Golenischeff), in two columns; the papyrus breaks off before the end of the story.
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