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Egyptian · tale · c. 1200 BCE (19th Dynasty)

The Tale of Two Brothers

Anonymous (copied by the scribe Ennana) — Egyptian

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MouseiaMusean translationMouseia’s complete machine-assisted Musean translation, made directly from the Egyptian, line for line, covering all nineteen pages of Papyrus D’Orbiney (British Museum EA 10183) with its colophon, 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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