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PAPYRUS No. XXXIX.

Papyrus of an fll^-^^^G£§ d^y ne

Amen-Rd, "sistrum player of Ainen-Ra,"
whose name is unfortunately destroyed. It
is written in the small hieratic of the XXVItb
dynasty. [Lee, Catalogue, 435.]

PAPYRUS No. XL.

Papyrus containing some chapters of the
Book of the Dead in a very careless and
cursive hieratic, too illegible to read. Roman.
[Lee, Catalogue, 430.]

PAPYRUS No. XLI.

Chapter 57 of the Book of the Dead, written
in very cursive hieratic upon a piece of mummy
cloth. [Lee, Catalogue, No. 437.]

PAPYRUS No. XLII.

Papyrus written in hieratic writing, apparently
containing a part of a Chapter of the Booh of
the Bead. Height 10 inches, length l$h inches.
[Gliddon.]

G. DEMOTIC PAPYRI.

PAPYRUS No. XLIII.

Two fragments of a demotic papyrus written
in the small character of the later Ptolemaic
period. The fragments measure: No. 1, 8^
inches long by 8 inches high. No. 2, 4^ inches
long by 5^ inches high.

PAPYRUS No. XLIV.

Eight small fragments of demotic writing.

PAPYRUS No. XLV.

Fragments of a demotic papyrus, apparently
a record of some accounts. 3 columns. 20
inches long by 10 inches high.