Dr. Yekaterina Barbash
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He lived probably in northern Egypt.
I know that because the style of decoration of this papyrus and the layout
was more common in the Memphite area, which is basically around modern Cairo.
We also know that his mother was named Taneferher, which means she of the beautiful face.
And we know that he was really well off.
But unfortunately, some books of the dead mention the titles of the owner.
So what he did during life, where he worked, there are no titles in this papyrus.
So he likely, I would imagine that it was a workshop of scribes.
Actually, I'm sure it was a scribal workshop.
These scribes were likely also very much involved in the religion.
So I would refer to them as priest scribes, perhaps.
There's at least four different hands that can be identified in the papyrus, and they
We still don't know exactly how it worked, whether it was a new scribe every day or, I don't know, Hanumhotep went to have lunch and Amenemad took over.
But there are at least four different hands.
Interestingly enough, sometimes the handwriting changes in the middle of the spell.
That does occur pretty frequently with other papyri, although some texts were fully inscribed by the same person.
So there are texts that have to do with embalming because mummification for the Egyptians created a deity.
So you took a body with their spirit that could ideally travel back and forth between the worlds.
and made it into a divinity.
And that helps the spirit achieve that transfigured status, or basically the status where they are accepted among the other gods.
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