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Accession number:
Amh. Egy. Pap. 1
Title:
Amherst Egyptian Papyrus 1.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description:
1 pane of glass containing 5 fragments : papyrus ; various dimensions; smallest, 1 3/4 x 1 1/2 in.; largest, 6 x 3 1/2 in.
Provenance:
Lord Amherst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
(a) 6 x 3 1/2 inches; (b) 5 x 2 inches; (c) 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches; (d) 1 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches; (e) 2 3/4 x 2 inches.
Literary manuscript fragments which originally formed part of the outer roll of papyrus.
Believed to have been found at Thebes; the associated papyrus is now preserved in the Berlin Museum (Papyrus no. 3023).
Related fragments: Amh. Egy. Pap. 2; Amh. Egy. Pap. 3; Amh. Egy. Pap. 4.
Script:
hieroglyphic, hieratic
Language:
Egyptian
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