Papyrus Westcar

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf ancient Egyptian papyrus
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Westcar_Papyrus
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Old_Kingdom
gptkbp:condition fragmentary
gptkbp:conservationStatus incomplete
gptkbp:contentType anthology
gptkbp:currentLocation gptkb:Staatliche_Museen_zu_Berlin
gptkbp:date gptkb:Second_Intermediate_Period
c. 17th century BCE
gptkbp:discoveredIn gptkb:Egypt
gptkbp:features stories about magicians and pharaohs
gptkbp:firstPublished gptkb:Karl_Richard_Lepsius
1860
gptkbp:frameStory Khufu's sons tell tales to entertain their father
gptkbp:genre gptkb:literature
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Papyrus Westcar
gptkbp:importantFor contains earliest known version of magician Dedi story
gptkbp:influenced influenced later Egyptian literature
gptkbp:language ancient Egyptian
gptkbp:length about 1.7 meters
gptkbp:mainTheme miraculous tales
gptkbp:material gptkb:newspaper
gptkbp:museum P. Berlin 3033
gptkbp:narrativeStyle gptkb:storytelling
gptkbp:notableCharacter gptkb:Khufu
gptkb:Sahure
gptkb:Userkaf
gptkb:Neferirkare
gptkb:Dedi
Sons of Khufu
gptkbp:notableStoryline Dedi and the beheading of a goose
prophecy of the birth of future kings
gptkbp:numberOfBooks five main stories
gptkbp:referencedIn gptkb:Miriam_Lichtheim's_Ancient_Egyptian_Literature
gptkb:The_Literature_of_Ancient_Egypt_(Simpson,_ed.)
gptkbp:script hieratic
gptkbp:setting gptkb:court_of_Khufu
gptkbp:significance important source for ancient Egyptian literature
gptkbp:studiedBy gptkb:Adolf_Erman
gptkb:Alan_Gardiner
gptkb:Miriam_Lichtheim
gptkb:Verena_Lepper
gptkb:William_Kelly_Simpson
gptkbp:studiedIn gptkb:Egyptology
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:newspaper
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4