The Mayer Papyri are two Ancient Egyptian written documents from the 12th Dynasty that hold records of court legal proceedings. The best noted of the two is Papyrus Mayer A. It takes with court sessions checked the first two years of the Whm Mswt or Renaissance, an era which got in year 19 of king Ramesses XI.
A panel dwelling of the vizier of the South and 3 full officials cross-tried surmises little with tomb looting at Deir el-Bahri (cf. as well the Abbott Papyrus and the Amherst Papyrus). The inquiry of both distrusts and viewers was leaded by a falanga and an oath in the name of the king was administered.
The confessions of the six surmises were confirmed by the testimonial of the chief of police of the Theban Necropolis and other viewers, among them the son of one of the cops who had died in the meantime. This witness claims to have been a child at the time of the offence; still, he was beaten when he was being tried, as was a female discover. While the ancient Egyptian judicial system was quite brutal and partial against the criminated, a verdict of guilty was not a old end: Papyrus Mayer A records the run of five men who had been saw to be free.
Papyrus Mayer B is a papyrus fragmentize, only inscribed on the recto. It consists of 14 maintained horizontal lines of hieratic script, in a form regular of the Twentieth Dynasty. Both its start and end are half. It deals with the looting of the tomb of king Ramesses VI, which is not related to in any of the other tomb-robbery papyri. No names of officials have survived in the extant part of the papyrus. Of the five cops described, none can be described with certainty. It has been suggested that the coppersmith Pentahetnakht may have been identical to the coppersmith Pentahetnakht, son of Kedakhtef, referred in Pap. BM 10054 as a member of a pack which was tried in year 16 of Ramesses IX, but this continues a simple hypothesis.
Cyril Aldred has commented that the caisson of the sarcophagus of Ramesses VI must have been taken comparatively soon after the burial, because the sacramental oils had not yet had the time to solidify, but whether this was done during the pilfering by the cops tried in Pap. Mayer B continues uncertain.
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A panel dwelling of the vizier of the South and 3 full officials cross-tried surmises little with tomb looting at Deir el-Bahri (cf. as well the Abbott Papyrus and the Amherst Papyrus). The inquiry of both distrusts and viewers was leaded by a falanga and an oath in the name of the king was administered.
The confessions of the six surmises were confirmed by the testimonial of the chief of police of the Theban Necropolis and other viewers, among them the son of one of the cops who had died in the meantime. This witness claims to have been a child at the time of the offence; still, he was beaten when he was being tried, as was a female discover. While the ancient Egyptian judicial system was quite brutal and partial against the criminated, a verdict of guilty was not a old end: Papyrus Mayer A records the run of five men who had been saw to be free.
Papyrus Mayer B is a papyrus fragmentize, only inscribed on the recto. It consists of 14 maintained horizontal lines of hieratic script, in a form regular of the Twentieth Dynasty. Both its start and end are half. It deals with the looting of the tomb of king Ramesses VI, which is not related to in any of the other tomb-robbery papyri. No names of officials have survived in the extant part of the papyrus. Of the five cops described, none can be described with certainty. It has been suggested that the coppersmith Pentahetnakht may have been identical to the coppersmith Pentahetnakht, son of Kedakhtef, referred in Pap. BM 10054 as a member of a pack which was tried in year 16 of Ramesses IX, but this continues a simple hypothesis.
Cyril Aldred has commented that the caisson of the sarcophagus of Ramesses VI must have been taken comparatively soon after the burial, because the sacramental oils had not yet had the time to solidify, but whether this was done during the pilfering by the cops tried in Pap. Mayer B continues uncertain.
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