The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor

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The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor is a Hero myth originating from the Egyptian belief system.

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Attested: Unknown
Created: 2000—1900 BCE
Myth type: Hero
Main deity: Unknown
Belief system: Egyptian
Origin: Africa › Northern Africa › Egypt

Belief system

Egyptian Religion

Polytheistic

The religion of ancient Egypt represents a cultural identity that lasted from ca. 3500 BCE to 300 CE, and included hundreds of myths, deities, and customs.

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"The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor" Book · James Peter Allen · 2015
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2000—1900 BCE

The creation date for the myth named 'The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor' is derived from other scholars. The creation date is a range because the exact date is unknown. We derived this from the source(s) listed below:

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  1. Allen, MEL, 7.Visit"The grammar of the text and the paleography of the hieratic date the composition to the early Middle Kingdom (ca. 2000–1900 BCE)."
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MLA Modern Language Association (8th ed.)

OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor." OMNIKA – World Mythology Index, OMNIKA Foundation, 28 Jun. 2019, omnika.org/stable/206. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.

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APA American Psychological Association (6th ed.)

OMNIKA (2019, June 28). The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor. Retrieved from https://omnika.org/stable/206

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CMS Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.)

OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation. Created June 28, 2019. Accessed January 23, 2026. https://omnika.org/stable/206.

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Bibliography

Allen, James P. Middle Egyptian Literature: Eight Literary Works of the Middle Kingdom. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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Faulkner, Raymond O. A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian: Modernized by Boris Jegorović. Edited by Boris Jegorović. Oxford, United Kingdom: Griffith Institute, 2017.
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Hoch, James E. Middle Egyptian Grammar. Vol. 15, SSEA Publication. Mississauga, Canada: Benben, 1997.
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Egyptian Belief system
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location_city Egypt Northern Africa

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