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    The Story of Nefrekepta from a demotic papyrus
    The Story of Nefrekepta from a demotic papyrus
    The Story of Nefrekepta from a demotic papyrus
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    The Story of Nefrekepta from a demotic papyrus

    By Gilbert Murray

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Story of Nefrekepta from a demotic papyrus - Gilbert Murray

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Story of Nefrekepta, by Gilbert Murray

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Story of Nefrekepta

      from a demotic papyrus

      Author: Gilbert Murray

      Release Date: July 28, 2011 [EBook #36887]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF NEFREKEPTA ***

      Produced by James Wright and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      The Story of

      NEFREKEPTA

      FROM A DEMOTIC PAPYRUS

      Put into Verse by

      GILBERT MURRAY

      OXFORD

      AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

      MCMXI

      Henry Frowde, M.A.

      Publisher to the University of Oxford

      London, Edinburgh, New York

      Toronto and Melbourne

      PRINTED IN ENGLAND

      Preface

      Introduction

      Ahure's Story

      The Book of Thoth

      The Contest for the Book

      Ta-Buvuë, and the Return of the Book

      PREFACE

      The original of this tale is in Demotic Egyptian, in prose, on a fragmentary papyrus dated 'the first month of winter, in the fifteenth year' of some king unnamed. Palaeographical evidence suggests some date about 100 b.c. My own education has been neglected in the matter of Demotic, and I know the tale only from the literal translation which accompanies the text in Dr. Griffith's Stories of the High Priests of Memphis. In that form, however, it so fascinated me that I presently found myself, to the neglect of more urgent duties, putting it into English verse and filling up the gaps in the narrative. I have tried to preserve the style and often the exact words of the original, as rendered by Dr. Griffith, but in other respects temptations have been great and I have not resisted them.

      The names present some difficulties. In Demotic, if I understand aright, the vowels are not written and the consonants often do not mean what they seem to mean. The hero's name is spelt, roughly speaking, N('y)-nfr-k'-Pth, the phantom lady's Ty-bwbwe; the priest's is written Stne, but was probably pronounced, so Dr. Griffith tells me, Sětôn or Sětân.

      While doing the verses I was constantly reminded of certain Egyptian illuminations by Miss Florence Kingsford, now Mrs. Sydney Cockerell, which I had seen some years ago, and she has been so kind as to provide the book with a frontispiece and tail-piece.

      Those who desire further information about Setne will find it in the introduction to Dr. Griffith's learned and delightful book (Clarendon Press,

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