Sweeney believes that the context of the letter is as follows: a woman leaves her home “both to consult the oracle of the queen-goddess Nefertari in Deir el-Medina-and possibly to get away from a husband mistreating her.” She may have been the wife of the male addressee. In the message, the writer claims that ‘the addressee hasn’t looked after the woman well in the past, he says, and admonishes the addressee to do better going forward,’ reports JSTOR Daily. The author had taken in a female relative of the addressee and he requests ointment from him. It is believed that the person who wrote this letter was different from the previous missal. In the third papyrus written by an anonymous male writer, there is also a request for an ointment. According to JSTOR Daily, the author of the letter wrote that “ friends care for each other, help one another out and comply with each other’s requests.” The anonymous sender states that the friend was meant to send some ointment - but presumably, this was not delivered. The letter writer also states that he is confused by the behavior of the addressee. In another papyrus, a writer asks the addressee “What’s the matter with you?” reports JSTOR Daily. It appears that the two men had a big falling out, but we will never know the reasons why or if Nakhtsobk was indeed thrown out of Deir el-Medina. What is worse, he is trying to get him expelled from the village. It appears that Amennakhte has been ‘ghosting’ the scribe. In one of the letters, a scribe named Nakhtsobk writes to a worker called Amennakhte and asks him “What offence have I done against you? Aren’t I your old eating companion?” according to. (Sailko/ CC BY SA 3.0 ) Frustrations and Fights Put Down in Ink reports that she ‘chose three letters, in which she tries to show that there are disturbing or angry messages sent by several friends to each other.’ This helped her to get inside the heads of the ancient villagers, something that does not happen very often.įour ancient Egyptian scribes from the Amarna period. 17th Century Letter Allegedly Written by Possessed Nun Decoded For the First Timeįor many decades Dr.Signed, Sealed, and Undelivered: Letters in Trunk Reveal Scandals and Intrigues of 17th Century Lives. ![]() To the King, My Sun, My God, the Breath of My Life… Amarna Letters Paint Remarkable Picture of Ancient Egyptian Rulership.Sweeny wrote in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. They have been studied for many decades but “their interest has not been exhausted,” Dr. We at Ancient Origins have reported that many documents have been found in the ruined village ‘including personal letters, bills, lawsuits, prayers, ancient Egyptian literature, and thousands of papyri.’ The records and messages written on papyrus have revealed amazing insights into ordinary people’s religious beliefs, marriages, daily life, and medical treatments, and have even provided information on the world’s first strike. ( Sergey /Adobe Stock) Ancient Egyptian Letters Revealing Daily Life Many ancient Egyptian letters have been found at Deir el-Medina, a New Kingdom village populated by artisans who worked on the tombs of the pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings. The site only really began to be excavated at the same time as Howard Carter was discovering the Tomb of King Tutankhamun (1922) and it is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. This was an ancient Egyptian village that was populated by artisans and craft persons and their families who worked on the tombs of the pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings during the New Kingdom period (1550-1080 BC). Deborah Sweeney, an Egyptologist at the University of Oxford, studied three letters that were found at Deir-el-Medina. These ancient Egyptian letters demonstrate the nature of friendship at the time and also that the people of the past were like us in many ways.ĭr. ![]() She found that the letter-writers showed anger, frustration, and bitterness. ![]() An expert has studied three letters written by ancient Egyptians and made some interesting discoveries. Written records allow us to really understand ancient people.
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