ABSTRACT
THERE only copy of this story which we possess is found in a papyrus in the British Museum (Harris, No. 500; a photographic facsimile of it is given by Budge, Facsimiles of Egyptian Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum, Second Series, plates 48–52). This hieratic text was written in the reign of Rameses II, and the end of it is wanting. Several translations 1 and abstracts of it have been published, the most popular being that of Maspero (Contes populaires, IVth edition, Paris, 1911); for he takes the view that the prince could not and did not escape from the violent death which the Seven Hathors had decreed for him when he was a child. And Maspero was undoubtedly right.
