From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: October 1, 1994| Author: Ward, William A. | COPYRIGHT 1994 American Oriental Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Almost a century ago, two large caches of papyri and fragments were discovered in the funerary temple of Sesostfis ll at Lahun. One, known as the Petrie Papyri, was published almost immediately; the other, mostly in Berlin, has never been fully published. That the Berlin texts contain much information relative to Middle Kingdom chronology - Egyptian festival-days, lunar dates, and the like-has long been known and used, usually by scholars who have had access to the original materia...