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A lot of those are related to death: 5 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS MOTHER 2 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS SON 1 EMBALMING HORMOSE 1 EMBALMING HIS BROTHER 1 MOU
by spiralx 4y ago
A lot of those are related to death:
5 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS MOTHER
2 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS SON
1 EMBALMING HORMOSE
1 EMBALMING HIS BROTHER
1 MOURNING HIS SON
3 LIBATING TO HIS FATHER
13
and I suspect most of these:
8 WITH THE SCRIBE
1 OFF ABSENT WITH THE SCRIBE
5 FETCHING STONE FOR THE SCRIBE
2 FETCHING STONE FOR QENHERKHEPSHEF
1 LIBATING FOR HIS SON
1 LIBATING FOR HIM
1 LIBATING
2 BURYING THE GOD
21
and there's a bunch making remedies and/or looking after wives and female relatives:
6 MAKING REMEDIES FOR THE SCRIBE’S WIFE
5 HIS WIFE WAS BLEEDING
4 WITH KHONS MAKING REMEDIES
4 HIS DAUGHTER WAS BLEEDING
2 HIS MOTHER WAS ILL
21
Some ones that seem work-related by the use of names:
49 WITH HIS BOSS
3 WITH HIS BOSS DITTO
3 WITH HOREMWIA
13 WITH AAPEHTI
68
Then there's some actual stuff the worker was doing - mostly brewing beer:
17 BREWING BEER
5 OFFERING TO THE GOD
1 WITH HIS GOD
1 STRENGTHENING THE DOOR
1 BUILDING HIS HOUSE
25
A few unknowns:
4 OFF ABSENT
And finally the actual illness and injury, including scorpion guy!
67 ILL
4 SUFFERING WITH HIS EYE
1 THE SCORPION BIT HIM
72
Seems that brewing and DIY were the only hobbies around - unless you count making remedies or embalming!
- james-skemp 4y agoWith his boss: It's a little buried (on mobile) but: > ... the next most frequent is being away with one's superior doing private work for him, a practice that was not forbidden if done in moderation.
- _carbyau_ 4y agoWhile definitely a legal grey area in these modern times, foremen borrowing a truck/excavator and a bloke or two to sort out something at the foreman's house still seems to happen.
- neycoda 4y agoI imagine this happens often considering the amount of stories I hear of developer companies doing inadequate jobs.
- downrightmike 4y agoBrewing beer and making remedies may may not be mutually exclusive as ancient beer had natural antibiotics like tetracycline: https://www.wired.com/2010/09/antibiotic-beer/ https://www.wired.com/2010/09/antibiotic-beer/
- dr_dshiv 4y agoMany might be missing work because of ritual uncleanliness (wife/daughter bleeding)
- londons_explore 4y agoRemember this is translated by archaeologists, and most of them go into the profession thinking about mummies. I suspect whenever they come across a symbol they don't understand to translate, they might just assume it means "ooh, it must mean wrapping my father"! TL;DR:. Translator bias could be hitting hard...
- f1refly 4y agoNo. We have a good grasp of how ancient Egypt worked. Archeologists also don't go into the profession "thinking about mummies", archeology is a respectable, evidence-based profession. Do you think the whole field of archeology is a joke?0 There are lots of dual-language pieces that have been used to verify an accurate translation of these very inscriptions.
- alsetmusic 4y agoNot least of which, the Rosetta Stone has three: Hieroglyphics, Demotic, and Greek. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone
- frupert52 4y agoFor a long time archeology was simply known as “digging” and following that “digging for things”
- junon 4y agoDo you have any authority on the subject of archeological academic misconduct or are you speculating? No, archeologists do not go into the field "thinking about mummies". This isn't Hollywood.
- neycoda 4y agoYah, exactly, they're not excuses, they're reasons, and apparently allowed and understood. Whoever wrote that article is really anti-worker and probably a trash person.
- blakebreeder 4y agoThe word "excuse" doesn't require the negative connotation you're ascribing to it.