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Papyrus Anastasi I is an ancient Egyptian satirical text from the Ramesside Period (circa 1200 BCE), used to train scribes during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties. Officially designated British Museum papyrus 10247, it was purchased from merchant Giovanni Anastasi in 1839 and has been housed in the British Museum since then.
The papyrus contains a letter from an army scribe named Hori to his fellow scribe Amenemope, written in a highly satirical tone to mock Amenemope’s incompetence and lack of practical knowledge. Hori ridicules Amenemope for being unskilled in administrative and military tasks, such as calculating rations for soldiers, estimating bricks for ramps, or organizing army supplies.
A significant portion of the text includes a vivid, fictionalized account of Amenemope’s disastrous journey through mountainous terrain in Canaan and Syria, describing dangers like ambushes by the Shosu people, who are described as “four cubits or five cubits” tall—equivalent to approximately 6 to 8 feet—fueling modern debate about possible references to giants in ancient texts.
The document is also a crucial historical source for geography and place names in the Levant during the New Kingdom, listing numerous towns along the Jordan River watershed, the Litani River, and the Orontes River, including Kadesh, Joppa (Jaffa), Megiddo, Beth-sha-el, and Rehob, offering valuable insight for biblical archaeology.
The papyrus is written in hieratic script on a 8.11-meter-long roll, with 28 pages of 8–9 lines each, and is considered one of the finest examples of Ramesside literary papyri.
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Ancient weights and measures. You gotta love them. Absolutely freaking worthless. A cubit is anywhere from 45 cm to eleventy gabillion hectares, give or take a few horsepower. I don’t even know why they bothered to write them down. Here’s another good one—- the “bath”