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Judgement in the Presence of Osiris, Hunefer's Book of the Dead
Papyrus of Hunefer
Ancient Egyptian scribes Ancient Egyptian overseers of the cattle Book of the Dead {{AncientEgypt-bio-stub
Hunefer was a scribe
A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of Printing press, automatic printing.
The work of scribes can involve copying manuscripts and other texts as well as ...
during the 19th Dynasty (''fl.
''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for '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 indic ...
'' ). He was the owner of the Papyrus of Hunefer, a copy of the funerary Egyptian Book of the Dead
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, which represents one of the classic examples of these texts, along with others such as the Papyrus of Ani.
Hunefer was "Scribe of Divine Offerings", " Overseer of Royal Cattle", and steward of Pharaoh
Pharaoh (, ; Egyptian language, Egyptian: ''wikt:pr ꜥꜣ, pr ꜥꜣ''; Meroitic language, Meroitic: 𐦲𐦤𐦧, ; Biblical Hebrew: ''Parʿō'') was the title of the monarch of ancient Egypt from the First Dynasty of Egypt, First Dynasty ( ...
Seti I
Menmaatre Seti I (or Sethos I in Greek language, Greek) was the second pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the New Kingdom of Egypt, New Kingdom period, ruling or 1290 BC to 1279 BC. He was the son of Ramesses I and Sitre, and th ...
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See also
*List of ancient Egyptian scribes
This is a list of Egyptian scribes, almost exclusively from the ancient Egyptian periods.
The hieroglyph used to scribe equipment (hieroglyph), signify the scribe, ''to write'', and ''"writings"'', etc., is Gardiner's sign list, Gardiner sign Y3 ...
References
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Judgement in the Presence of Osiris, Hunefer's Book of the Dead
Smarthistory
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Papyrus of Hunefer
Ancient Egyptian scribes Ancient Egyptian overseers of the cattle Book of the Dead {{AncientEgypt-bio-stub