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Amherst Egyptian Papyrus 8.2.

Accession number
Amh. Egy. Pap. 8.2
Object title
Amherst Egyptian Papyrus 8.2.
Display Date
Ptolemaic period? (305-30 B.C.)
Created
Egypt, Ptolemaic period? (305-30 B.C.)
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description
1 glass pane of fragments : papyrus ; 5 x 1 in.; 10 1/2 x 8 in.
Provenance
Lord Amherst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Perhaps originally formed part of a geographical treatise, portions of which are preserved in the Gizeh Museum and among the private collection of Mr. Hood of Nettleham Hall in Lincolnshire.
Related fragments: Amh. Egy. Pap. 8.1, Amh. Egy. Pap. 8.3, Amh. Egy. Pap. 8.4, Amh. Egy. Pap. 8.5.
Script
hieroglyphic, hieratic
Language
Egyptian
Classification