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share: publicnoneSource: OCR (tools/batch_ocr.py, model coptic+eng) of Volume I-1/8.4. The Sixth Dynasty - Reign of Ity.pdf; page files: L0/ocr/Volume_I-1/8.4._The_Sixth_Dynasty_-_Reign_of_Ity/pages
Attribution: Breasted – Ancient Records of Egypt (1906), vol. I: The Sixth Dynasty – Reign of Ity; public domain in Canada (death year verified: Breasted d.1935 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry_Breasted)); OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.
Licence: public domain in Canada (author died ≤ 1971, verified; LICENCES.md §7) — US position (recorded, does not gate the class; PD-CA 2026-09-26): PD-US (published ≤1930)
Jurisdiction note: this text is public domain under Canadian law (the project is published from Canada; LICENCES.md §7: author died in or before 1971). It may still be in copyright elsewhere — in countries with a life + 70 term, or where a later edition claims its own rights. The licence line above says what was verified. If you are outside Canada, check your own law before re-using it.
The text
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| 1 | REIGN OF ITY |
| 2 | HAMMAMAT INSCRIPTION= |
| 3 | 386. This is the only inscription of King Ity known. |
| 4 | His pyramid mentioned in the inscription has never been |
| 5 | found® and the place of the king in the series of Pharaohs is |
| 6 | uncertain. The inscription is dated in his first year, and |
| 7 | records an expedition which was sent to procure the finer |
| 8 | stone necessary for the king’s pyramid. |
| 9 | 387. Year of the first occurrence (of the numbering), fourth month |
| 10 | of the first season, day 2. |
| 11 | — Thy (Yhy); Khufu (Hwf); commander of the army — Yakhe- |
| 12 | tirni (Y°§°t yrn(y)).© |
| 13 | Came the ship captain, Ipi (¥py), and Nekuptah (Pth-n-k>w) to |
| 14 | do the work on the pyramid (called): ‘“Fame-of-Ity” (Yty); together |
| 15 | with ϩⲟⲟ soldiers and ϩⲟⲟ fworkmen, making} ϩⲟⲟ (sic!). |
| 16 | aCut on the rocks in the Wadi Hammamat; text: Lepsius, Denkmdiler, II, |
| 17 | 115 f.; partially Golénischeff. Hammamat, VII; Sethe, Urkunden, I, 148; see |
| 18 | Maspero, Recueil, 17, 56 ff. |
| 19 | bSee Maspero, ibid., 56 fi. |
| 20 | cThese names were perhaps later inserted between the date and the following. |
| 21 | 174 |
Provenance
- title
- Breasted – Ancient Records of Egypt (1906), vol. I: The Sixth Dynasty – Reign of Ity
- dialect
- none
- source
- OCR (tools/batch_ocr.py, model coptic+eng) of Volume I-1/8.4. The Sixth Dynasty - Reign of Ity.pdf; page files: L0/ocr/Volume_I-1/8.4._The_Sixth_Dynasty_-_Reign_of_Ity/pages
- licence
- public domain in Canada (author died ≤ 1971, verified; LICENCES.md §7) — US position (recorded, does not gate the class; PD-CA 2026-09-26): PD-US (published ≤1930)
- share
- public
- attribution
- Breasted – Ancient Records of Egypt (1906), vol. I: The Sixth Dynasty – Reign of Ity; public domain in Canada (death year verified: Breasted d.1935 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry_Breasted)); OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.
- file
- Ancient Egyptian/Breasted – Ancient Records of Egypt (1906), vol. I- The Sixth Dynasty – Reign of Ity/8.4._The_Sixth_Dynasty_-_Reign_of_Ity.ocr.L0.txt
L0 witness (OCR)
Cite as:
Breasted – Ancient Records of Egypt (1906), vol. I: The Sixth Dynasty – Reign of Ity. OCR (tools/batch_ocr.py, model coptic+eng) of Volume I-1/8.4. The Sixth Dynasty - Reign of Ity.pdf; page files: L0/ocr/Volume_I-1/8.4._The_Sixth_Dynasty_-_Reign_of_Ity/pages. Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/ancient-egyptian/breasted-ancient-records-of-egypt-1906-vol.i-the-sixth-dynasty-reign-of-ity/8.4.the-sixth-dynasty-reign-of-ity.ocr/. Breasted – Ancient Records of Egypt (1906), vol. I: The Sixth Dynasty – Reign of Ity; public domain in Canada (death year verified: Breasted d.1935 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry_Breasted)); OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.
What the layers are
The text as its witness or edition has it, original spelling; its dialect is a description and is never standardized.
For Egyptian texts: the transliteration with the editors' marks turned into the symbols ° * < > _ ^ (ruled 2026-09-10). For papyri: the edition's Leiden marks as the same symbols, and the editors' readings beside the scribe's as ‹scribe→editors› (ruled PAP-3).
Standardized Greco-Bohairic spelling and grammar, generated by code from the layer above under the rulings of the project.
The Kemetic alphabet, generated by code from L1.
Quoted translations where they exist, credited; otherwise model drafts, marked as drafts.