This tablet is the only documented object that recounts the fable of 'The dispute between the head and the body'. The text is a fable in the form of a dialogue in which the two protagonists clash, each asserting supremacy over the other. The text states: 'The body affirms that the head is second to it'. In Egyptian the word for 'head' (tep) also indicates the ordinal number 'first' (tepy). Hence, the entire fable is based on a play on words and makes the body's claim absurd.
