Family will from Kahun is a text that dates back to 1800 B.C as it was around the reign of Kings Amenemhat III and IV. At the start of the text, shows the red highlight to signify the title or the start of a paragraph. The text elucidate the relations and identities between Ankhreni and Wah through the brief “descriptions”. The descriptions a person follow a similar form throughout the text as it outlines his/her: job, status, family background, and a nickname. Through the descriptions of the Ankhreni as The Trusted Seal-Bearer and the estates such as Asiatic servants in the will, an easy interpretation can be made that this will belonged to those of high status. An enlightenment that the text provided were the role and status of women in ancient Egypt.…show more content… Behaviours such as social hierarchy also surfaces in the text in a very significant way as socially well off families had “properties” like Asiatic servants. We can also see the importance of status in Ancient Egyptian culture when the testator introduced his brother by listing his occupation, noble birth and at last his name. Although this text provides us with a momentarily scenery within Ancient Egypt, it is merely a scene. We can not fully understand the relationship between male and female in such a sample, all we found out is that women in Egypt are able to own their property through a will. But can they earn their own property without being connected to a man? Through this will, we learned the estates and rankings of the
