This catalogue is intended to be only a checklist of the Brooklyn
Museum's collection of 212 Demotic Egyptian texts. The catalogue
provides both the Museum and Demoticists generally with a list of all
the pieces plus only such information as would make the list useful. It
is not intended to be a complete publication of the texts with the usual
full transliteration, translation, notes, and photographs or drawings.
Rather, samples of each type of text (papyri, ostraca, inscribed stone
and wooden pieces) are illustrated on the plates and only the more
interesting passages in the texts are given in transliteration and
translation. The book concludes with key word, name, title, and
geographical name indices.