A Multitude of Counsellors: Being a Collection of Codes, Precepts and Rules of Life from the Wise of All Ages - Couverture rigide
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Egypt well-nigh fifty centuries ago. It is a manuscript known as The Papyrus Prisse, taking the name from a gentleman, M. Prisse d Avennes, who acquired it at Thebes, in 1847, and presented it to the National Library in Paris. This most interesting mes sage from the remotest antiquity out of which any voice has reached us is in two parts. The first part, which is brief and probably fragmentary, contains a few rules of behavior ascribed to one Kaqimna, of the time of Snefrou, who reigned among the Pharaohs of the third dynasty. The second part is a more extended and important treatise of the same character. I ts author introduces himself as The prefect, the feudal lord, Ptah-hotep, under the majesty of the king of the South and the North, A ssa. A ssa was a monarch of the Fifth Dynasty, and the latest reckonings of Egyptian chronology, by Professor Petrie, place his reign somewhere between 3700 and 3500 years before Christ, or considerably more than two thousand years before the time of Moses and the exodus of I srael.
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