"Where have you been?"
"Nowhere, just wondering around!" answered the son.
"Why are you wondering around tehn?! Go to school, if you will know how to write, you won't know what does the hard life of a farmer mean and your hands will be clean!" told father.
In fact, only the boys (not girls) from well situated and wealthy families could afford their sons going to schools.
Boys weren't allowed to write on the papyruses already in the beggining. At first they wrote on the broken ceramic's parts, then, when they had learned something, they wrote on clay tablets and only after that, when these young men were able to write quite good, they were allowed to write on papiruses. There were two adults in the classroom - a teacher and a man with a lash from a hippo's leather. He beated those boys who were lasy and who didn't listen. There was a saying:
"Boys have their ears on their backs!"
But in the end, it was a big honour to become a clerk!
ibi - (be) thirsty
ibw - refuge
ib(A) - dance (vb.)
ibr - stallion
ibhty - a stone used for beads, etc., from Ibhet. a nubian region
ibH - tooth
ibH - a priest who poured libations or the like
ip - count, calculate, reckon
ip Dt.f - take stock of (one's) person, i.e. grow up
aipt-swt - Ipet-sut, most-select-of-places, name of the tample of Karnak
ipt, oipe - a measure of capacity = 4 Heqat or 18 litres
ipt - mission, message, occupation
ipw (m.) - archaicplur.
TO BE CONTINUED.