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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D. MYTHICAL PAPYRUS.

PAPYRUS No. IX. (The Abtabxb Paptkus.)

but it was already in his collection in 1871,
(PLATES XIX-XXI.) when Dr. Samuel Birch published a short ac-

count of it in the Zeitschrift fur Aegyptische
Fragments of two pages and the lower part Sprache (pp. 119,120). The subject appears to
of three others, of a papyrus mentioning the be certain " tribute of the sea " which was paid
goddess Astarte, written in a very clear and ; to the Phoenician goddess Astarte by (?) a
neat hieratic hand of the XlXth or XXth t messenger of Ptah, but the papyrus is unfortu-
dynasty. How and when it came into the ' nately too fragmentary to permit of any con-
possession of Lord Amherst is not known, '■ nected translation being made.