Writers in this language frequently placed red dots above the text to indicate "verse points.
In one work in this language, a thief lays a piece of cloth across a road in order to confiscate a farmer's goods, causing that farmer to make nine pleas for justice to the judge Rensi. Writers in this language frequently placed red dots above the text to indicate "verse points." In another work in this language, a man murders his lover by throwing a wax animal into a stream, causing it to come to life and kill her. A third work in this language includes a passage frequently mistranslated as a man receiving oral sex from a snake, who tells the title character how his family was incinerated by a falling star. This language was used to write "The Eloquent Peasant" and "The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor," as well as the Tale of Sinuhe and the Westcar Text. For 10 points, name this ancient language used to write the spells collected into The Book of the Dead, which was often printed on papyrus.
In one work in this language, a thief lays a piece of cloth across a road in order to confiscate a farmer's goods, causing that farmer to make nine pleas for justice to the judge Rensi.
Ancient Egyptian [or Middle Egyptian]