![]() ![]() The most important text recounts the efforts of a Thirteenth Dynasty Theban noblewoman named Senebtisi to establish legal ownership of ninety-five household servants, whose names indicate that forty-five were of Asiatic origin. Differences in handwriting and in the historical events described demonstrate that different scribes added new inscriptions over several generations. ![]() The texts are written in a cursive form of hieroglyphs called hieratic. ![]() When complete, the papyrus to which this fragment belonged measured almost seven feet long. ![]()
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