©JAL, April 2008
In ancient Egyptian, from the 'New Kingdom' onwards, they called "what amounted to the school and library" the "House of Life"

"May you become a scribe and frequent the House-of-Life. Become like a chest of writings.[...]"
"The Instruction of Amunnakhte", _The Literature of Ancient Egypt_, edited by William Kelly Simpson, pages 221-222

This fits the Friday Illo theme of "SAVE" quite well. Institutions of learning, such as schools and museums, SAVE knowledge in a secure place, so that this saved knowledge can be studied, and thereby saved by the students, who then with that knowledge 'become like a chest of writings'.

   

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