Authors:	Polis, Stéphane
Title:	The messy scribe from Deir el-Medina : a palaeographical journey through the texts of a draughtsman, scribe, and poet from the 19th dynasty : Pay (i)
Online publication date:	23-Aug-2023
Year of first publication:	2022
Language:	english
Abstract:	This paper gathers a number of texts that it argues were written by a single scribe from Deir el-Medina who lived during the first half of the 19th Dynasty and who was active mostly during the reign of Ramesses II. The identification of these texts takes as its point of departure the archeological context of ‘Maison G/J’, situated north of the Ptolemaic temple and to the east of the Grand Puits. Based on palaeographic, orthographic, and thematic evidence, the paper shows that this scribe wrote a series of hymns to Amun that are expressive of a vivid personal piety. By correlating certain features of this scribe’s handwriting, it further argues that the same scribe was also responsible for hymns addressed to the deities Mut, Taweret, and Iaret, as well as for a hymn to Thebes. Outside of the literary realm, the same hand is attested in administrative documents, including letters that allow us to situate the scribe in question within a family of draughtsmen. The paper identifies this polygraph as Pay (i) – the first of this line of draughtsmen from Deir el-Medina – to whom dozens of hieratic texts can be attributed.
DDC:	490 Andere Sprachen 490 Other languages 930 Alte Geschichte 930 History of ancient world 960 Geschichte Afrikas 960 General history of Africa
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	Externe Einrichtungen
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-9269
Version:	Published version
Publication type:	Buchbeitrag
Document type specification:	Scientific article
License:	In Copyright
Information on rights of use:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Citation:	Ägyptologische „Binsen“-Weisheiten IV Gülden, Svenja A. Konrad, Tobias Verhoeven, Ursula
Pages or article number:	405 453
Publisher:	Franz Steiner Verlag
Publisher place:	Stuttgart
Issue date:	2022
ISBN:	978-3-515-13333-3
Relations:	is Part of 10.25358/openscience-7159
Appears in collections:	JGU-Publikationen