THE EGYPTIAN PERIOD
sources a regular register was written up on a leather roll and put in the temple library and an epitome of this was in turn published by carving on the walls of the temple. This represents in a nutshell the natural and usual manner and stages of record keeping and publication from that time on.
What we have in inscription is chiefly of daily events which "was recorded each day by the day's name" by Thaneni the scribe, and afterwards "recorded upon a roll of leather in the temple of Amon to this day." There were also records of "plunder" which the king expressly orders to be put into inscription as well as other matters of which there is an interesting glimpse given in connection with the supplies furnished to the harbor towns of which it is said "They (the supplies) remain in the daily register of the palace, the statement of them not being given in this inscription not to multiply words."
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