The project seeks to explore what literary knowledge was transmitted on papyrus in the late New Kingdom, how, and the uses of literary texts. Production and re-production, innovation and canonisation coexist in the Ramesside literary production. The corpus of literary works of the Ramesside time includes copies of previous compositions that continued to be transmitted in Classic Egyptian, and new works in the ‘colloquial’ Late Egyptian. Micòl’s two year project funded by the Museo Egizio is titled ‘The transmission of literary knowledge on papyrus in Ramesside time. Its goal is to draw a clearer picture of the workmen’s life in Deir el-Medina, and provide insights into the organisation of social and economic structures during the reign of Ramesses IX. My project will also investigate the social context of these papyri and their production. And though these papyri have received the attentions of scholars-Jaroslav Černy in particular-since then, there nevertheless remains no complete edition of the majority of the texts in this corpus. These documents came to Turin in 1824 as part of the collection of Bernardino Drovetti. This corpus comprises roughly 30 papyri related to the administration of the village of Deir el-Medina, and which can be dated to the reign of Ramesses IX. The first aim of my project is the comprehensive publication of a selected group of papyri housed in the Museo Egizio. Along with other text types, these papyri contain hymns to the king, which will help to shed light on my research question. Through the study of these sources from Deir el-Medina, I propose to describe patterns of representation of the king, as well as the interaction between these patterns.Īs part of this study, I will produce a complete edition of texts collated from four papyrus manuscripts in the Museo Egizio of Turin: Cat.1892 + Cat.1886 + Cat.188 Cat. Despite this physical absence, the people of Deir el-Medina both represented and described the Pharaoh on many occasions. The king thus remains a fairly hazy figure in the administrative texts from the village. Although the tomb builders of Pharaoh worked for the king’s eternity, they never interacted directly with him, and the only representatives of the state to actually visit Deir el-Medina were the vizier and the mayor of Thebes. My PhD investigates how pictorial and written images of the king were constructed by members of the Deir el-Medina community during the Twentieth dynasty (1190–1076 BC).
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