Kreativität in Text und Bild (oDeM 1039, oLouvre E 12965 und Stele UC14545)

Lieven, Alexandra von

Abstract

The ostracon DeM 1039 contains excerpts from two literary texts figuring prominently in the scribal curriculum, namely the Teaching of Kheti and the Teaching of Amenemhet. Both texts exhibit noteworthy textual variants. It is proposed here that a new overarching sense is created thereby. By taking the archaeological find context into account, it is possible to pinpoint two other objects belonging to the same family, if not even the same person, which also show a remarkable degree of originality and creativity. This holds especially true for one of them, stela UC14545, which contains a fossil bone(?) as a figure of the god Ptah.