Urkunden des Alten Reichs
A royal decree of the Dynasty 8 king Neferkauhor
Urkunden des Alten Reichs is a collection of Egyptian documents written in Egyptian hieroglyphs edited by German Egyptologist Kurt Heinrich Sethe. Urkunden des Alten Reichs is the first book in the Urkunden des ægyptischen Altertums series, and translates as "Documents from the Old Kingdom." It is typically called Urkunden I and cited as Urk. I in academic literature.
Urkunden I contains 308 pages, comprising 179 documents, dating to the Old Kingdom period. The hieroglyphic text is autographed.
External links
The book is available online
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