This volume publishes, for the first time, approximately fifty late
Egyptian texts from the Suzuki collection held at Tokai University,
Japan. The project is a result of a five-year collaboration between
Tokai University, Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, The
University of Michigan, and the Staatliche Museum zu Berlin. Professor
Suzuki formed his collection in the early 1960s when he was based in
Cairo. The bulk of the collection, now housed in the Department of Asian
Civilization, School of Letters at Tokai University as part of the
Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection (AENET), consists of early
demotic texts. There is also one Third Intermediate period hieratic text
concerned with temple land, and a few small Greek fragments from the
Byzantine period. The texts published here present an interesting range
of document types and examples of demotic handwriting, and a few
surprises. Among the more intriguing pieces are a fine word list and a
new mythological narrative.