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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 ...
Egyptian papyri containing images (13 P) Egyptian papyri in Aramaic (12 P) O. Oxyrhynchus papyri (32 C, 11 P, 3 F) Pages in category "Papyri from ancient Egypt"
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 ...
Egyptian medical papyri are ancient Egyptian texts written on papyrus which permit a glimpse at medical procedures and practices in ancient Egypt. These papyri give details on disease, diagnosis, and remedies of disease, which include herbal remedies, surgery, and magical incantations. Many of these papyri have been lost due to grave robbery.
Joseph von Karabacek (1845–1918), a leading authority in the field of papyrology. Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
The Joseph Smith Papyri (JSP) are Egyptian funerary papyrus fragments from ancient Thebes dated between 300 and 100 BC which, along with four mummies, were once owned by Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Smith purchased the mummies and papyrus documents from a traveling exhibitor in Kirtland, Ohio, in 1835.
The papyrus was found by the Italian traveler Bernardino Drovetti in 1820 in Luxor (Thebes), Egypt and was acquired in 1824 by the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy and was designated Papyrus Number 1874. When the box in which it had been transported to Italy was unpacked, the list had disintegrated into small fragments.
The collection does not include the Saqqarah papyri [a] and most of the Clermont-Ganneau ostraca. [ b ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is the standard reference textbook for the Aramaic Elephantine papyri and ostraca , as well as other examples of Egyptian Aramaic, which together provide the primary extant examples of Imperial Aramaic worldwide.