Literature of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period

Egyptian Literary Compositions of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period

Summary of surviving compositions

Teachings

Teachings preserved from beginning to end

Teaching of Any
Teaching of Amenemipet

Note too a Late Period papyrus with substantial parts of a Teaching, written in hieratic, but datable no earlier than Dynasty 26, from mention of a king of that Dynasty.

Teaching / Satire, Letter in form

Satirical Letter (Papyrus Anastasi I)

Tales

Tales preserved from beginning to end

Tale of the gods Horus and Seth
Tale of the Two Brothers

Tales, part only preserved

Tale of the goddess Astarte
Tale of the Doomed Prince
Tale of the god Heryshef and a goddess
Tale of a king and a goddess
Tale of kings Seqenenra and Apepi
Tale of king Thutmose III, general Djehuty, and the capture of Joppa
Tale of Truth and Falsehood
Tale of Wenamun

There is also a Late Period hieratic papyrus with substantial parts of a Tale of Meryra, for which the date of composition may be earlier than Late Period.

Lamentations, in the form of a letter

Tale of Woe (the 'Moscow Letter')

Love Songs

Cycle of songs (on Papyrus Chester Beatty I)
Cycle of songs (on Papyrus Harris 500)
Cycle of songs (on Papyrus Turin 1966)
other individual songs on other sources

See too the literary style narrative known as the Tale of Isis and Ra, though this was used in healing and so falls outside the functional definition of literature.