Instruksi Kagemni

Instruksi Kagemni adalah sebuah teks sastra hikmat instruksional Mesir kuno yang masuk genre sebayt ('ajaran'). Meskipun bukti terawal dari kompilasinya berasal dari Kerajaan Pertengahan Mesir, kepengarangannya secara tradisional diatributkan kepada Kagemni,Lichtheim (1996), p. 244. seorang wali raja yang menjabat pada masa kekuasaan Firaun Sneferu (memerintah 2613–2589 SM), pendiri Dinasti Keempat (masuk Kerajaan Lama).

Catatan

Referensi
Lichtheim, Miriam. (1996). "Didactic literature" in Ancient Egyptian Literature: History & Forms. Edited by Antonio Loprieno. Leiden: E.J. Brill. .
Parkinson, R.B. (2002). Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt: A Dark Side to Perfection. London: Continuum. .
Simpson, William Kelly. (1972). The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, and Poetry. Edited by William Kelly Simpson. Translations by R.O. Faulkner, Edward F. Wente, Jr., and William Kelly Simpson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. .
Battiscombe Gunn. (1906), "THE WISDOM OF THE EAST,  THE INSTRUCTION OF PTAH-HOTEP AND THE INSTRUCTION OF KE'GEMNI: THE OLDEST BOOKS IN THE WORLD", LONDON, JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, 1906, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30508/30508-h/30508-h.htm

Bacaan tambahan
Erman, Adolf. (2005). Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Collection of Poems, Narratives and Manuals of Instructions from the Third and Second Millennia BC. Translated by Aylward M. Blackman. New York: Cambridge University Press. London: Kegan Paul Limited. .
Gardiner, Alan H. "The Instruction to Kagemni and his brethren.", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, London, 32, 1946, pp. 71–74.

Pranala luar
The Maxims of Good Discourse or the Wisdom of Ptahhotep ca.2200 BCE (contains full fragmentary version—in original hieroglyphs and translated English version by Gardiner (1946)—of Kagemni, which is one of two instructional texts found on the Prisse Papyrus)

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