The tale of the eloquent peasant
Subtitle: a reader's commentary
By: R. B. Parkinson
Series: Lingua aegyptia. Studia monographica -- Bd. 10; Lingua aegyptia -- 10.
Publisher: Widmaier
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hamburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9783943955101
Subjects: Egyptian language; Papyri; Amherst papyri; Hieratic Papyri; Texts; Egyptian literature; Hieratic Writing; Papyrus Berlin 3023; Papyrus Berlin 3025; Papyrus Butler; Papyrus; RamessumA; Eloquent peasant
Notes: Text in Egyptian (Hieratic) transcription : commentary and notes in English.

Includes as frontispiece a still of Ahmed Marei as the peasant from the 1970 film Shakawa al-fallah al-fasih.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-371) and index.

Introduction and commentaries in English; text of the poem in transliteration of Egyptian in parallel translation into English.