Westcar Papyrus

GPTKB entity

Statements (31)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf ancient Egyptian papyrus
gptkbp:acquiredBy Henry Westcar
gptkbp:condition fragmentary
gptkbp:contains stories about Khufu
stories about magicians
stories about royal court
tales of wonder
gptkbp:currentLocation Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin
gptkbp:date gptkb:Second_Intermediate_Period
c. 17th century BCE
gptkbp:discoveredIn gptkb:Saqqara
gptkbp:featuresCharacter gptkb:King_Khufu
Dedi the magician
Sons of Khufu
court magicians
gptkbp:genre gptkb:literature
folk
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Westcar Papyrus
gptkbp:language gptkb:Middle_Egyptian
gptkbp:length 12 pages (incomplete)
gptkbp:material gptkb:newspaper
gptkbp:museum P. Berlin 3033
gptkbp:namedAfter Henry Westcar
gptkbp:significance contains earliest known stories of magic in Egypt
important source for ancient Egyptian literature
gptkbp:studiedBy gptkb:Adolf_Erman
gptkbp:writtenBy hieratic script
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Papyrus_Berlin_3038
gptkb:Papyrus_Westcar
gptkb:Khufu
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5