Reading guide
3 readings
Reading Egyptian instruction
Reading guide · 3 readings
Read selected advice from the Teaching of Ptahhotep with the limits of the surviving manuscript and of the translation in view. The later objects discussed in the maat article give a separate and limited religious context.
Read together
Listening, text and objects
Begin with the lesson’s question about listening and power. Use the guide for passage numbering, and the maat article for two objects that cannot settle the teaching’s date.
Guided course · Module 2 · Lesson 4
Listening, power and the Teaching of Ptahhotep
The Teaching of Ptahhotep urges a leader to hear a petitioner all the way through. Can listening restrain power while leaving the listener’s authority, and the inequality between them, in place?
Reference article
The Teaching of Ptahhotep: a reading guide
This guide locates the passages of the Teaching of Ptahhotep read in lesson 4 and sets out their attributed setting, their surviving witness and the limits of the translation.
Reference article
Maat: right order in a religious setting
Two museum descriptions connect maat with order, truth and justice. The article keeps their different periods in view, along with the uncertain identification of one object.