The Report of Ounamun (circa 1065 BC). Analysis of a failed mission.
Saffron| N° d'inventaire | 26582 |
| Format | 17 x 24 |
| Détails | 196 p., 14 color plates outside the text, some figures, paperback. |
| Publication | Brussels, 2013 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782874570568 |
Ancient Egypt Knowledge Collection No. 15.
Wenamun was sent by Herihor, the high priest of Amun, to purchase timber for the maintenance or construction of the god's great boat at Thebes. This was around 1065 BC.
From this mission, the account given by Ounamon on papyrus is preserved, but the author abruptly stopped before the end of the second page. According to the meaning given to the place names listed by the traveler and as they were understood since the first translation, around 1899, he would have left Tanis and sailed on the Mediterranean, passing by Tyre, Byblos or even Cyprus; it was in Byblos that he should have acquired the wood for which he had been sent. But "the water" on which he had sailed was "the great Ym of Kharou" which cannot be the Mediterranean; it is the "great arm of fresh water" coming from the Nile and heading east to the bitter lakes, it is very probably the Wadi Toumilat.
Ounamon did not go to Byblos, nor to Tyre or Cyprus; he had to obtain wood from a forest source to the east of the delta; this is where his Misadventures take place . The papyrus on which he had begun to tell the story was discovered in an earthenware pot at el-Hiba and purchased in 1891 by Wladimir Golénischeff, his first publisher.
Ancient Egypt Knowledge Collection No. 15.
Wenamun was sent by Herihor, the high priest of Amun, to purchase timber for the maintenance or construction of the god's great boat at Thebes. This was around 1065 BC.
From this mission, the account given by Ounamon on papyrus is preserved, but the author abruptly stopped before the end of the second page. According to the meaning given to the place names listed by the traveler and as they were understood since the first translation, around 1899, he would have left Tanis and sailed on the Mediterranean, passing by Tyre, Byblos or even Cyprus; it was in Byblos that he should have acquired the wood for which he had been sent. But "the water" on which he had sailed was "the great Ym of Kharou" which cannot be the Mediterranean; it is the "great arm of fresh water" coming from the Nile and heading east to the bitter lakes, it is very probably the Wadi Toumilat.
Ounamon did not go to Byblos, nor to Tyre or Cyprus; he had to obtain wood from a forest source to the east of the delta; this is where his Misadventures take place . The papyrus on which he had begun to tell the story was discovered in an earthenware pot at el-Hiba and purchased in 1891 by Wladimir Golénischeff, his first publisher.