Papyrus Moscow 120
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Date: c. 1075 BCE
The Report of Wenamun is an Egyptian papyrus found in 1891 at el-Hibeh in Upper Egypt and now held in Moscow (Papyrus Moscow 120). Wenamun, an official of the temple of Amon at Karnak, reports on his journey at the end of the Twentieth Dynasty (c. 1075 BCE), when the high priest Hrihor sent him to buy cedar from Lebanon for the sacred river barge of Amon. He travels with a portable image of the god called “Amon-of-the-Way,” which he hides on his arrival at Byblos and later calls the divine messenger of Amon. During a sacrifice at Byblos one of the prince’s noble youths falls into a prophetic frenzy and demands that the envoy and his god be brought in, and the prince, Zakar-Baal, has the records of his fathers read out to show what earlier kings of Egypt paid for timber. The English text is based on James Henry Breasted's 1906 translation.
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