The hieratic material from the Temple of a Million Years of Thutmose III: A preliminary report

The chapter provides an overview of the ostraca and papyrus fragments from the Temple of a Million Years of Thutmose III. Most of these come from the rubbish dumps outside the enclosure wall, but a small number where also found inside the temple itself. The material includes both administrative and literary texts. The administrative texts relate to the building and running of the temple, including offering accounts and the celebration of various festivals. These papyrus fragments maincome from the day-book of the temple, and so constitute the only surviving temple archive of the New Kingdom. The literary texts on ostraca include many of the classics that are known to have been copied during scribal training (Kemit, The Instruction of Amenemhat I, The Instruction of Khety, etc.), while several of the papyrus fragments are from of cultic or ritual rolls, occasionally in several different versions (e.g. The Opening of the Mouth in both a regular hieratic and an illustrated version).