Gutenberg Open Science: 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)

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dc.contributor.author	Polis, Stéphane	-
dc.date.accessioned	2023-08-23T08:56:22Z	-
dc.date.available	2023-08-23T08:56:22Z	-
dc.date.issued	2022	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/9287	-
dc.description.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.	en_GB
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	InCopyright	*
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	490 Andere Sprachen	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	490 Other languages	en_GB
dc.subject.ddc	930 Alte Geschichte	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	930 History of ancient world	en_GB
dc.subject.ddc	960 Geschichte Afrikas	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	960 General history of Africa	en_GB
dc.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)	en_GB
dc.type	Buchbeitrag	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-9269	-
jgu.type.contenttype	Scientific article	de
jgu.type.dinitype	bookPart	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	Externe Einrichtungen	de
jgu.organisation.number	0000	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.book.title	Ägyptologische „Binsen“-Weisheiten IV	de_DE
jgu.book.editor	Gülden, Svenja A.	-
jgu.book.editor	Konrad, Tobias	-
jgu.book.editor	Verhoeven, Ursula	-
jgu.pages.start	405	de
jgu.pages.end	453	de
jgu.publisher.year	2022	-
jgu.publisher.name	Franz Steiner Verlag	de
jgu.publisher.place	Stuttgart	de
jgu.publisher.isbn	978-3-515-13333-3	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.subject.ddccode	490	de
jgu.subject.ddccode	930	de
jgu.subject.ddccode	960	de
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485	-
jgu.relation.IsPartOf	10.25358/openscience-7159	-
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