Accounts of workforce salaries

Middle Kingdom

ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 107

The fragmentary papyrus contains accounts of grain and dates given as salaries to a workforce. The account specifies the amounts given on specific days, ranging from day 20 of the last month of the year through the epagomenal days into the beginning of the new year. The verso of the papyrus mentions dates in the shemu-season (summer).

This papyrus was found in a tomb together with another fragmentary papyrus and a few ostraca. These were originally believed to belong to the funerary servants of Harhotep who is buried nearby, but no servant is mentioned in their inscriptions, and the handwriting differs from one text to another.

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Title: Accounts of workforce salaries
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 12
Reign: reign of Senwosret I
Date: ca. 1961–1917 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb of Harhotep (TT 314, MMA 513), MMA excavations, 1921–22
Medium: Papyrus, ink
Dimensions: 8 11/16 x 4 15/16 in. (22 x 12.5 cm)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922
Object Number: 22.3.527
Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

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