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  • 1 This autobiography recounts Weni's various actions and his service to three kings of the Sixth Dynasty (ca.
  • The Dynasty 6 Vizier named Weni the Elder, who lived about four and a half thousand years ago, had a detailed biography written on the outside.
  • The life of Weni, also called Uni, is one of the best-documented lives from the era of the Old Kingdom era of Egyptian history.

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    Text and Framework in Set apart Old Realm Egypt - The Anthropology and Historiography of Weni The Elder

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    The Life and Afterlife of a high ranking Egyptian by Heather Tunmore

    Good evening everybody, and welcome to the WA Museum Boola Bardip and the Discovering Ancient Egypt Exhibition. Before we get started with our guest speaker for this evening, I'd just like to take a moment to acknowledge the lands on which we are gathered on and learning here today, the lands of the Whadjuk people of the the Nyoongar nation. I'd also like to pay our respects to their elders, past and present. 

    This evening we have Heather speaking to you about the life and afterlife of an ancient Egyptian noble. Please put your hands together and welcome Heather.  

    Heather Tunmore:  

    Okay. Before I start, I'd like to acknowledge the Department of Antiquities in Egypt and thank them for allowing me to work in Egypt alongside their people for the last 40 years. So, a long time! And I'd also like to thank the Department of Archeology and Anthropology at this museum for the fun we've had working together for the last 40 odd years. Something like that.  

    Okay. I'm going to talk to you tonight. I'm going to pick this up mid-stream because I didn't quite finish it last time and talk to you about a man called Weni who was a noble (well, he was a high official. There'

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    THE LITERATURE OF ANCIENT EGYPT

    AN ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES, INSTRUCTIONS, STELAE, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, AND POETRY

    YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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    List of AbbreviationsxiIntroduction by William Kelly SimpsonPART I NARRATIVES AND TALES OF MIDDLE EGYPTIAN LITERATUREKing Cheops and the MagiciansThe Tale of the Eloquent PeasantThe Shipwrecked SailorThe Story of SinuhePART II LATE EGYPTIAN STORIESThe Quarrel of Apophis and SeknenreThe Capture of JoppaThe Tale of the Doomed PrinceThe Tale of the Two BrothersThe Contendings of Horus and SethThe Blinding of Truth by FalsehoodAstarte and the Insatiable SeaA Ghost StoryThe Report of WenamonPART III INSTRUCTIONS, LAMENTATIONS, AND DIALOGUESThe Instruction of Hardedef (First Part)The Maxims of PtahhotepThe Teaching for the Vizier KagemniThe Teaching for King MerikareThe Teaching of King Amenemhet I for His Son SenwosretThe Loyalist Instruction from the Sehetepibre StelaThe Instruction of a Man for His SonThe Man Who Was Weary of LifeThe Admonitions of an Egyptian SageThe Lamentations of Khakheperre-sonbeThe Prophecies of NefertyThe Instruction of AmunnakhteThe Instruction of AmenemopePART IV FROM THE RELIGIOUS LITERATURESelections from the Pyramid TextsSelections from the Coffin TextsBook of
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