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The Mayer Papyri 〔Breasted op. cit. §§ 544-556〕 are two Ancient Egyptian documents from the Twentieth Dynasty that contain records of court proceedings.〔T. E. Peet, The Mayer Papyri A & B, London 1920 (Nos. M. 11162 and M. 11186)〕 ==Papyrus Mayer A== The best known of the two is Papyrus Mayer A. It deals with court sessions held in the first two years of the Whm Mswt or Renaissance, an era which began in year 19 of king Ramesses XI. A panel consisting of the vizier of the South and three high officials cross-examined suspects charged with tomb robbery at Deir el-Bahri (cf. also the ''Abbott Papyrus'' and the ''Amherst Papyrus''). The interrogation of both suspects and witnesses was preceded by a bastinado and an oath in the name of the king was administered. The confessions of the six suspects were corroborated by the testimony of the chief of police of the Theban Necropolis and other witnesses, among them the son of one of the thieves who had died in the meantime. This witness claims to have been a child at the time of the crime; still, he was beaten when he was being examined, as was a female witness. While the ancient Egyptian judicial system was quite brutal and biased against the accused, a verdict of guilty was not a foregone conclusion: Papyrus Mayer A records the discharge of five men who had been found to be innocent. 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「Mayer Papyri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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