| Story of Wenamun | |
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| Pushkin Museum | |
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| Also known as | Moscow Papyrus 120 |
| Type | Papyrus |
| Date | c.1000 BCE |
| Place of origin | al-Hibah, Egypt |
| Language(s) | Egyptian |
| Scribe(s) | Unknown |
| Discovered | 1890 |
| Wenamun in hieroglyphs | |||||||
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wn.jmn[1][2] | |||||||
The Story of Wenamun (alternately known as the Report of Wenamun, The Misadventures of Wenamun, Voyage of Unamūn, or [informally] as just Wenamun) is a literary text written in hieratic in the Late Egyptian language. It is only known from one incomplete copy discovered in 1890 at al-Hibah, Egypt, and subsequently purchased in 1891 in Cairo by the Russian Egyptologist Vladimir Golenishchev.[3] It was found in a jar together with the Onomasticon of Amenope and the Tale of Woe.
The papyrus is now in the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and officially designated as Papyrus Pushkin 120. The hieratic text was published by Korostovcev 1960, and the hieroglyphic text was published by Gardiner 1932 (as well as on-line).
- ^ Biase-Dyson, Camilla Di (June 21, 2013). Foreigners and Egyptians in the Late Egyptian Stories: Linguistic, Literary and Historical Perspectives. BRILL. ISBN 9789004251304 – via Google Books.
- ^ Schipper, Bernd Ulrich (June 21, 2005). Die Erzählung des Wenamun: ein Literaturwerk im Spannungsfeld von Politik, Geschichte und Religion. Saint-Paul. ISBN 9783525530672 – via Google Books.
- ^ (Caminos 1977:1).