Petosiris – un activo constructor de la memoria egipcia del inicio del período ptolemaico

Abstract

The long text of philosophical and religious inspiration attributed to Petosiris, a high priest of the god Djehuti / Tot in the Egyptian region of Hermopolis in the IV-III centuries B.C., carved on the interior walls of his tomb at Tuna el-Gebel, is a compact repository of individual, familiar and civilizational memory as well as both ethical and moral principles which fits in the multimillenary Egyptian wisdom tradition, which was intended to convey and teach men who «live on earth» rules of good living, the so called metjen en ankh , «ways of life».