The number of the religious works of the Egyptians was very large, and in each great temple a small chamber was set apart as a library; here the papyrus rolls, or books, were kept in boxes, and, in some cases, the names of the works were inscribed on the walls of the chamber. The number of the rolls in a temple library seems to have been comparatively small, for the list of books which is cut on the wall of the “House of Books,” of the temple of Edfû, only contains the names of thirty-seven works. =Profane Literature.=—Among works of a didactic and moral character may be mentioned the =Precepts of Kaqemna= and the =Precepts of Ptaḥ-ḥetep=. The first of these contains a short series of admonitions as to general behaviour, which were written towards the end of the IIIrd dynasty, about B.C. 3900, and the second a group of aphorisms of high moral worth, by a high official who flourished in the reign of Ȧssȧ, a king of the Vth dynasty, about B.C. 3360. A late copy of the latter work is preserved in the British Museum. Other works of this class are The =Instructions of Ȧmen-em-ḥāt I=, a complete copy of which is given in the First Sallier Papyrus (No. 10,185), and the =Maxims of Ani=, preserved in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The latter work inculcates the highest standard of practical morality, and contains a lofty idea of the duty of the Egyptian to his god and his neighbour; many of the counsels embody shrewd common sense and experience, and are similar to portions of the Book of Proverbs and the Book of Ecclesiasticus. The language in which the maxims are written is sometimes very difficult, for many of them are in the form of short, pithy proverbs. [Illustration: PLATE III. False door from the tomb of Sheshȧ, a royal scribe, who flourished in the reign of Khufu (Cheops), about B.C. 3700. [Vestibule, North Wall, No. 18.]] [Illustration: PLATE IV. Sepulchral tablet of Thethȧ, an official who flourished in the reign of Ȧntef-uaḥ-ānkh, a king of the XIth dynasty, B.C. 2600. [Northern Egyptian Gallery, Bay 4, No. 100.]] [Illustration: PLATE V. Painted sepulchral tablet of Sebek-ḥetep, scribe of the wine-cellar. XVIIIth dynasty. [Northern Egyptian Gallery, Bay 12, No. 513.]] [Illustration: PLATE VI. Sepulchral tablet of Pai-neḥsi, the overseer of the storehouse of gold from the Sûdân. XIIth dynasty. [Southern Egyptian Gallery, Bay 7, No. 299.]] [Illustration: PLATE VII. Sepulchral tablet of Bak-en-Ȧmen, a scribe of the table and wine-cellar. XIXth or XXth dynasty. [Southern Egyptian Gallery, Bay 22, No. 751.]] [Illustration: PLATE VIII. Sepulchral tablet of Nes-Ḥeru, a priest. About B.C. 350. [Southern Egyptian Gallery, Bay 26, No. 941.]]