The Teaching for King Merykara, alt. Instruction Addressed to King Merikare, is a literary composition in Middle Egyptian, the classical phase of the Egyptian language, probably of Middle Kingdom date (2025–1700 BC).
In this sebayt the author has a First Intermediate Period king of Egypt possibly named Kheti[1] address his son, the future king Merykara, advising him on how to be a good king, and how to avoid evil. Merykara is the name of a king of the 9th or 10th Dynasty, the line or lines of kings who ruled northern Egypt during a period of division, the First Intermediate Period (about 2150–2025 BC).[2] Perhaps this allowed the author of this composition greater freedom in describing the limits of royal authority than might have been possible in referring to kings of a unified Egypt; the Teaching for King Merykara is effectively a treatise on kingship in the form of a royal testament, the first of this genre. Similar works were created later in the Hellenistic and Islamic world and, in the speculum regum, had a parallel in medieval Europe.[3] Like similar later "royal testaments" one of its functions may have been the legitimization of the ruling king.[4][5]
^J. von Beckerath proposed a Kheti with the prenomen Nebkaure, in ZAeS, 03(1966), 13-20
^Lichtheim, op.cit., p.97
^Lichtheim, op.cit., p.97
^Hoop, op.cit., p.310
^Layton, op.cit., p.137
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