Newberry, Percy E.: The Amherst papyri: being an account of the Egyptian papyri in the collection of Lord Amherst of Hackney (London, 1899)

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pected to be of considerable help in the j selves, contain references to persons and

decipherment of the Demotic character.

The Amherst papyri are of very great
importance for several reasons ; among
them are certain fragments which enable
us to complete, or partially complete, docu-
ments in other collections. Others there
are which, complete or almost so in them-

events recorded in papyri and monuments
in other collections. The series of chapters
from the Book of the Dead, of which there
are parts of copies made for no less than
twenty-four individuals, is also of consider-
able interest, containing as it does some
eighty-four chapters.