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The Abusir Papyri are the largest papyrus findings to date from the Old Kingdom in Ancient Egypt.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About the Abusir Papyri )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Abusir Papyri )〕 The first papyri were discovered in 1893 at Abu Gorab near Abusir in northern Egypt. Their origins are dated to around the 24th century BC during the Fifth dynasty of Egypt, making them, even though often badly fragmented, also some of the oldest surviving papyri to date.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hieratic script )〕 Later on a large number of additional manuscript fragments were discovered in the area. ==Contents== The Abusir papyri are considered the most important finds of administrative documents from the Old Kingdom. They give detailed information about the running of a royal mortuary temple and include duty rosters for priests, inventories of temple equipment, and lists of daily offerings to the two solar temples at Abu Gorab, north of Abusir, as well as letters and permits.〔〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Administrative Documents of Abusir Papyrus Archives )〕 The fragments bear the remains of two different writings. The introduction is written in hieroglyphs and begins with a date (dates at that time were expressed in the number of national cattle-counts) referring to the reign of Djedkare Isesi, thus dating the manuscripts near the end of the Fifth Dynasty.〔 The fragmented papyri are written in columns divided into three horizontal registers.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Translation of the Abusir Papyri )〕 *the first register lists dates and names of officials *the second register lists names of recipients *the third register lists the kind of meat cuts supplied; this section is largely destroyed The hieratic text on the right summarizes allocations of grain.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abusir Papyri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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