Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor

By Scriptural Research Institute

The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor is the earliest known surviving story of a shipwrecked sailor, and as such is the forerunner of many stories of nautical adventure encountering strange magical creatures, from Homer's Odyssey to Sinbad the Sailor. In a broader sense, it is generally considered the oldest piece of Egyptian fiction to survive to

• Language: English
• Publisher: Digital Ink Productions
• Release date: Aug 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9781990289217

Book preview

Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor

SCRIPTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Published by Digital Ink Productions, 2023

COPYRIGHT

While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor

Digital edition. December 2, 2023

Copyright © 2023 Scriptural Research Institute.

ISBN: 978-1990289217

This English translation was created by the Scriptural Research Institute in 2021, primarily from the hieratic transcription by Vladimir Golenishchev (W. Golénischeff) in Les papyrus hiératiques (1913). Additionally, the following translations and commentaries were consulted for comparison: W.K. Flinders Petrie’s translation in Egyptian Tales, IVth to XIIth Dynasty, First Series (1899), and A.H. Gardiner’s Notes on the Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor in Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde number 40 (1909).

The image used for the cover is an artistic reinterpretation of ‘The funeral rites of a mummy on the Nile’ by Frederick Arthur Bridgman, painted between 1876 and 1877.

Note: The notes for this book includes Egyptian hieroglyphs. For your convenience, fonts correctly depicting these scripts are embedded in the ebook. If your reader does not support embedded fonts, you will need to install Unicode fonts that cover the range for Egyptian hieroglyphs on your reader manually, or you may see blank areas, question marks, or squares where the scripts are used. The Noto fonts from Google cover most of the scripts used, however, will not depict Egyptian hieroglyphs correctly due to current limitations in Unicode. Unicode does not currently support the hieratic script, and therefore all hieratic terms are transliterated into the Latin alphabet.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright

Forward

The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor

Map of Egypt and Nubia during the Old Kingdom

Available Digitally

Available in Print

FORWARD

The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor is the earliest known surviving story of a shipwrecked sailor, and as such is the