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rather than to agricultural work, and the question arises at times whether actual or projected work is involved. In the introduction there is a convenient listing of additions and corrections to the previously published Reisner papyri. Simpson reopens the question of the dating of these papyri in the light of new evidence from graffiti at Korosko. That the papyri are to be assigned to the reign of Sesostris I rather than Amenemhet I is now less certain. Discussion of various titles, some of obscure reading, filiation groups, the mathematics of the accounting, grammatical points, and a brief palaeography, supplementing the sign-lists of the previous volumes, complete the introduction. In connection with the obscure conversion factors, the reviewer wonders whether the ten-multiple was not utilized so as to avoid the use of cumbersome Egyptian fractions in any subsequent calculations that might be based on the data given in the papyrus. Especially useful is chapter 6, which includes discussions of building terms. De Buck, The Egyptian Coffin Texts, vol. 1, 174 e might shed some light upon the word nmc, and the existence of a feminine sboyt, meaning "door(?)," is supported by (ernSy an

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Author

Edward F. Wente

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1972

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)