Instruction for Merikare
ancient Egyptian text
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history of Egypt
- In ancient Egypt: The 12th dynasty (c. 1939–c. 1760 bce)
…significant of these is the Instruction for Merikare, a discourse on kingship and moral responsibility. It is often used as a source for the history of the First Intermediate period but may preserve no more than a memory of its events. Most of these texts continued to be copied in…
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