| The Story of Sinuhe |
This is the tale of an Egyptian palace official called Sinuhe. At the death of the old king, he fears strife and flees Egypt to build a new life in exile under a ruler in Syria. At the height of his powers he is challenged to a duel by a Syrian champion: Sinuhe kills his opponent in the duel, and begins a period of peace. At the approach of old age, he feels driven to return home to end his days, and be buried, as an Egyptian. The reigning king of Egypt invites him back, and he returns to the palace he had left years earlier. He has learned what it means to be an Egyptian, and he has become an Egyptian again - but can he, or his audience, really be the same after this voyage of self-discovery?
Links:
- Basic details of each text source papyri and ostraca
- A display of the alignment of the various text sources
- Hieratic facsimiles of Berlin Papyri 10499 and 3022 (abridged versions)
- Transcriptions from the hieratic into hieroglyphs - (in 5 parts)
- * Transliteration and translation
- * Notes on specific points
Note:
- The hieroglyphic transcription was initially created using mdc2html developed by Geof Watson and with further enhancements by myself (J. J. Hirst).
- Items marked '*', above, are updated pages for the "Digital Egypt for Universities") Sinuhe pages, whose kind permission was given to J.J.Hirst to use them as a basis for the above.
The UCL site has other related pages.
Copyright © 2001 J. J. Hirst. All rights reserved. (for all new material and corrections)
* are Copyright © 2000 University College London. All rights reserved.