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British Museum Papyrus 10508 4th or later T - Instruction of Ankhsheshonq: British Museum: P. BM 10508 London: UK Papyrus Berlin 3008 4th or later R - The Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys P.Berlin 3008 Berlin: Germany Cairo Museum Papyrus No. 30646 4th or later L - Setne I: Egyptian Museum: Cairo Museum Papyrus No. 30646 Cairo: Egypt: Cairo ...
Papyrus Brooklyn 35.1446 – A document that lists the names of 45 individuals, including a Canaanite woman named "Šp-ra." Scholars assume that this is a hieroglyphic transliteration of the Hebrew name "Shiphrah," which also appears in Exodus 1:15–21. However, while the name may be related, the document dates to c. 1833–1743 BCE (centuries ...
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Papyrus (P. BM EA 10591 recto column IX, beginning of lines 13–17) Papyrus (/ p ə ˈ p aɪ r ə s / pə-PY-rəs) is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface. It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge. [1]
The Book of The Dead is a modern name given to a collection of funeral texts from ancient Egypt, according to the World History Encyclopedia. The name is often misleading because “The Book of ...
Rhind Mathematical Papyrus: Amenemope: c. 1200 BC, 19th dynasty Author on papyrus, in hieratic: Instructions of Amenemopet (12 ft long scroll) Amenemope & Hori – Scribes, protagonists of Papyrus Anastasi I: Amenhotep, son of Hapu: under Amenhotep III: later deified Ani (scribe) 19th dynasty: the Papyrus of Ani, or scribe Ani (a Book of the ...
The papyrus lists the names of rulers, the lengths of reigns in years, with months and days for some kings. In some cases they are grouped together by family, which corresponds approximately to the dynasties of Manetho's book. The list includes the names of ephemeral rulers or those ruling small territories that may be unmentioned in other sources.
Papyrus narrating the story of the wise chancellor Ahiqar. Aramaic script. 5th century BCE. From Elephantine, Egypt. Neues Museum, Berlin. The Elephantine Papyri and Ostraca consist of thousands of documents from the Egyptian border fortresses of Elephantine and Aswan, which yielded hundreds of papyri and ostraca in hieratic and demotic Egyptian, Aramaic, Koine Greek, Latin and Coptic ...