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Fragmentary record. Early record of human knowledge organization system, since not a glossary but containing some categorization and ordering.
Onomasticon is the Latinised writing of a Greek word (plural: onomastica) used by Egyptologists for ancient Egyptian compositions comprising lists of words by category. These are not dictionaries or explicit encyclopaedia, because they do not include explanations for the words. However, the order and selection of words provide an implicit guide to the categories into which the Egyptians divided the world.
Beginning of the teaching, explaining to the heart, instructing the ignorant, to know all that exists, created by Ptah, brought into being by Thoth, the sky with its features, the earth and what is in it, the bend of the mountain, and what is washed by the primeval waters, consisting of all that is useful, illumined by Ra, all that is made to grow upon earth, reported by the scribe of god’s books in the House of Life Amenemipet son of Amenemipet, who says:
Contents are Introductory Heading Sky, water, earth (1-62) Persons, courts, offices occupations (63-229) Classes, tribes, and types of human being (230-312) The towns of Egypt (313-419) Buildings, their parts, and types of land (420-473) Agricultural land, cereals and their products (474-555) Beverages (556-578) Parts of an ox and kinds of meat (579-610)
