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

HIEROGLYPHIC AND HIERATIC PAPYRI.

A. EARLY LITERARY FRAGMENTS.

inches by 3^ inches. D. If inches by l£
inches. E. 2f inches by 2 inches.

Transcription.

In the following transcription the restorations
have been made from the parallel text of the
Butler Papyrus in the British Museum. From
that text it appears that the first two lines of
the tale are destroyed in the Amherst copy. The
ends of the third to the tenth horizontal lines
are preserved, but as they only give various
determinatives for the names of products of
the Sekhet Hemat, they are not given in the
transcription. Lines 11-14 are destroyed : the
text therefore begins with 1. 15 :—

15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31.

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Fragment A. Fragment B. Fragment 0. Fragments D and E.

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PAPYRUS No. I.

(Plate I. A-E.)

Five fragments written in the bold hieratic
writing characteristic of the Middle Kingdom.
They originally formed part of the outer roll of
a great papyrus said to have been found at
Thebes and now preserved in the Berlin
Museum (Papyrus No. 3023, published in L.D. j
vi, 108-110). The fragments measure in j
height and width respectively :—A. 6 inches i
by 'S>\ inches. B. 5 inches by 2 inches. C. 5£