century readings

a letter from Egypt, circa -1400.

I want to read something from each century, whenever possible, as I go through Egyptian history century by century,  Preferably a book, but even a poem, letter, inscription, or scrap of papyrus is better than nothing. But it should be something written in or about Egypt – or at least something that was widely read in Egypt, like the Koran, Iliad or New Testament, or something found at Oxyrhynchus or Nag Hammadi in Egypt.

Note: As you can tell from all the blanks, this is very much a work in progress! 

Here is what I read – or (in italics) hope to read (or reread) – in whole or in part:

• -3100s:
• -3000s:
• -2900s:
• -2800s:
• -2700s:
• -2600s:
• -2500s: Diary of Merer
• -2400s: Palermo Stone
• -2300s: Maxims of Ptahhotep
• -2200s: Pyramid texts 
• -2100s: autobiography of Harkhuf
• -2000s: Hymns to Ra and Hathor
• -1900s: Heqanakht letters
• -1800s: Story of Sinuhe
• -1700s: Dispute between a man and his Ba (Soul)
• -1600s: The Admonitions of Ipuwer
• -1500s: Kamose Stela
• -1400s: The Battle of Megiddo
• -1300s: King Tut’s tomb: inscriptions
• -1200s: Book of the Dead
• -1100s: Deir el-Medina letters
• -1000s: Late Ramesside Letters
• -900s: Coffin texts
• -800s: Homer: The Iliad
• -700s: Piankhi Stela
• -600s: autobiography of Montuemhat
• -500s: The petition of Pediese
• -400s: Herodotus on Egypt
• -300s: The Songs of Isis and Nephthys
• -200s: Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica
• -100s: Rosetta Stone
• -000s: Diodorus Siculus on Egypt
• +000s: Strabo on Egypt
• +100s: Shepherd of Hermas
• +200s: Origen: De principiis
• +300s: Athanasius: Life of St Anthony
• +400s: St Cyril of Alexandria: Lord’s Prayer
• +500s: Desert Fathers
• +600s: Koran
• +700s:
• +800s: 
• +900s:
• +1000s:
• +1100s: al-Idrisi on Egypt ?
• +1200s: al-Baghdadi: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years
• +1300s: Ibn Battuta on Egypt
• +1400s:
• +1500s:
• +1600s:
• +1700s:
• +1800s: Amelia B. Edwards: A Thousand Miles Up the Nile (1877)
• +1900s: UNESCO History of Africa – on Egypt in the 1900s

Suggestions are welcomed!

– Abagond, +2023. 

See also:

• Wikipedia: List of ancient Egyptian papyri
• Egyptian century of the week
• Nag-Hammadi Library
• Oxyrhynchus
• Stories listed by century
• The Bible in chronological order
• Augustine’s library
• Africans in the Greek and Roman world
• papyrus

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