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Accession number:
Amh. Egy. Pap. 12
Title:
Amherst Egyptian Papyrus 12.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description:
1 pane of glass containing 1 papyrus fragment ; 5 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches
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:
Fragment of a papyrus "in a very curious hieratic character," apparently of about the same date as Egy. Pap. 13. Cf. Newberry.
Related fragments: according to Georges Posener, Amh. Egy. Pap. 12 and Amh. Egy. Pap. 13 are from the same roll.
Script:
hieroglyphic, hieratic
Language:
Egyptian
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