You are hereHomeBARJanuary/February 1999Pharaoh’s Workers: How the Israelites Lived in EgyptIn the Words of a Worker This quotation and others from the Deir el-Medina correspondence that appear throughout this article were translated by Edward Wente in Letters from Egypt, SBL Writings from the Ancient World (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990). Join the BAS Library! Already a library member? Log in here. Institution user? Log in with your IP address.