HER-HERU AND QUEEN NETCHEMET RECITING A HYMN _To face_ 44

HER-HERU AND QUEEN NETCHEMET STANDING IN THE
HALL OF OSIRIS _To face_ 52

STELE RELATING THE STORY OF THE HEALING OF BENTRESHT 94

STELE ON WHICH IS CUT THE SPEECH OF AMEN-RĀ 107

A PAGE FROM THE GREAT HARRIS PAPYRUS _To face_ 110

STELE ON WHICH IS CUT THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THAIEMHETEP 150

A PAGE OF THE TALE OF THE TWO BROTHERS _To face_ 196




THE LITERATURE OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS

CHAPTER I

THOTH, THE AUTHOR OF EGYPTIAN LITERATURE.
WRITING MATERIALS, ETC.


The Literature of ancient Egypt is the product of a period of about four
thousand years, and it was written in three kinds of writing, which are
called hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic. In the first of these the
characters were pictures of objects, in the second the forms of the