The text is also the most consciously “literary” of Middle Egyptian compositions, replete with metaphors and carefully crafted sentences. An unusual blend of two genres, stories and wisdom texts, it begins and ends as a story but its bulk is devoted to nine lengthy discourses on the nature of Maat, which are the reason for its existence.

The original was composed in the first half of Dyn. 56, above), B2 and Bt are contemporary or slightly later (Parkinson 1991, xxvi), and R dates to the first part of Dyn. Vogelsang and Gardiner 1908 Parkinson 1991.ī1 can be dated to the coregency of Senwosret III and Amenemhat III (p. Written horizontally except for three columns. This copy preserves the beginning of the text the end is lost. He encounters a corrupt official who attempts to rob the. It is written in vertical columns except for the list of goods (Bt 1–14). The Eloquent Peasant, for example, begins as the story of a farmer bringing his crops to market. This copy preserves the beginning of the composition except for the opening lines (R 2, 1–8, 6).

3025 The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant B2.” Parkinson 1991 Parkinson 2012a, CD folder “Pap. It is written exclusively in vertical columns on the recto. The papyrus as preserved contains the end of the composition (from B1 263) and is the only copy to preserve the final lines (after B1 357). 3023 The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant B1.” This papyrus was written by the same scribe who wrote the B manuscript of Sinuhe. Not only do we pay for our servers, but also for related services such as our content delivery network, Google Workspace, email, and much more. The beginning of the composition is lost (to R 2, 3) and the text breaks off before the end (B2 91–142). Tale of the Eloquent Peasant Server Costs Fundraiser 2023 Running a website with millions of readers every month is expensive. It is attested in several Middle Kingdom copies, all in hieratic on papyri:

A s a work of literature, this composition is second in importance only to the Story of Sinuhe.

The tale of the eloquent peasant