Ipuwer Papyrus

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf ancient Egyptian manuscript
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs Admonitions of Ipuwer
gptkbp:author gptkb:Ipuwer
gptkbp:catalogueNumber gptkb:Papyrus_Leiden_I_344
gptkbp:condition fragmentary
gptkbp:currentLocation National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden
gptkbp:date circa 13th century BCE
gptkbp:discoveredIn gptkb:Egypt
gptkbp:firstPublished 1909
gptkbp:genre lamentation
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Ipuwer Papyrus
gptkbp:language gptkb:Middle_Egyptian
gptkbp:length 18 pages
gptkbp:material gptkb:newspaper
gptkbp:significance sometimes linked to biblical Exodus
source for understanding Egyptian literature
gptkbp:studiedBy gptkb:Alan_Gardiner
gptkbp:subject social chaos in Egypt
gptkbp:theme natural disasters
reversal of social order
gptkbp:writtenBy hieratic script
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:The_Admonitions_of_Ipuwer
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7