Khakheperraseneb (
fl.
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
c. 1900 BC) (also transliterated as Khakheperresenb, Khakheperrē-sonb, Khakheperre-sonb) was an Egyptian scribe who lived during the reign of
Senusret II
Khakheperre Senusret II was the fourth pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt. He ruled from 1897 BC to 1878 BC. His pyramid was constructed at El-Lahun. Senusret II took a great deal of interest in the Faiyum oasis region and began work on an ...
, and is the presumed author of
Sayings of Khakheperraseneb.
See also
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List of ancient Egyptian scribes
This is a list of Egyptian scribes, almost exclusively from the ancient Egyptian periods.
The hieroglyph used to signify the scribe, ''to write'', and ''"writings"'', etc., is Gardiner sign Y3, Y3 from the category of: 'writings, games, & mus ...
Notes
References
* ''The Burden of the Past and the English Poet'' (1970) by
Walter Jackson Bate
Walter Jackson Bate (May 23, 1918 – July 26, 1999) was an American literary critic and biographer. He is known for Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography-winning biographies of Samuel Johnson (1978) and John Keats (1964). .
External links
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InkshedJSTOR: Interviewwith
John Barth
Ancient Egyptian scribes
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