Middle Kingdom of Egypt
The Instructions of Kagemni is an ancient Egyptian instructional text of wisdom literature which belongs to the "sebayt" ('teaching') genre. Although the earliest evidence of its compilation dates to the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, its authorship has traditionally yet dubiously been attributed to Kagemni, a vizier who served during the reign of the Pharaoh Sneferu (r. 2613–2589 BC), founder of the Fourth Dynasty (belonging to the Old Kingdom).