Mini Episode: The Lost Son (A Lament)

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

A Father Begs His Son to Return Home. Late in the New Kingdom (c.1250 BCE), an Egyptian father wrote a letter to his son. The son had gone to sea, sailing on a ship; he had not sent any word of his wellbeing. Worried, the father writes a letter, begging his son to return home. The letter is possibly based off real events, for it involves people who were genuine figures in their community. The father, Menna, and the son Pay-Iry were inhabitants of the village of Deir el-Medina (Set-Ma'at, the Place of Truth). They lived around 1250 BCE, approximately, and this may be a record of their real relationship. Translations by John L. Foster, Ancient Egyptian Literature: An Anthology (Amazon) Website: egyptianhistorypodcast.com Twitter: @EgyptianPodcast Instragram: @EgyptPodcast Facebook: @EgyptPodcast Patreon: EgyptPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.2	leave to begin a search for their satisfaction in life. Of course you hope that the child will remain close and contribute to the household, but for a time you let them out to explore their world.
1:10.0	Then the child does not return.
1:14.6	In a text copied down around 1200 BCE, an ancient Egyptian father lamented the disappearance
1:22.4	of his son.
1:24.0	Fully grown, the boy had taken a job on a ship.
1:27.8	Now he sailed the ocean in distant lands, and the father had not heard from him. The father's name was Mena. His son was
1:37.5	Pai Eri. Mena was concerned. He worried for Pai Eri's safety and he wished that he would come home.
1:45.0	Over the course of an anguished letter, Mena beseeched his son to come back to safety.
1:52.0	This is a letter of need.
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2:00.0	my able seamen lost for the final mooring.
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2:08.0	but you never listened.
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