Amherst Papyri
As Amherst papyri a collection of will papyri called, formerly owned by William Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney were.
These are papyri from Egypt from the Middle Kingdom to the Arab period. The basis goes back to five papyri that Amherst wrote in 1865 to Dr. John Lee bought. The collection was expanded to include approximately two hundred different writings, which he kept in his library in his country estate, Didlington Hall, Norfolk , and made available to the public. The collection contains religious, literary, legal and other scripts in hieroglyphics , hieratic and demotic script , in Greek, Coptic and Arabic. Twenty demotic and Greek writings were found together in an earthen jar near Thebes , three demotic documents contain contents in Greek.
Towards the end of his life, William Tyssen-Amherst had to sell his collection for financial reasons. The Amherst Papyri were sold to the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York in 1913 and have been there ever since.
expenditure
Some Egyptian papyri were edited by Percy Newberry , others by Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt .
- Percy E. Newberry (ed.): The Amherst Papyri, Beeing an account of the egyptian papyri in the collection of the right hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney, FSA at Didlington Hall, Norfolk, With an Appendix on a coptic papyrus by WE Crum, MA London 1899.
- Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt (eds.): The Amherst Papyri, Beeing an account of the greek papyri (Part I) in the collection of the right hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney, FSA at Didlington Hall, Norfolk. Part I, The Ascension of Isaiah, and other theological Fragments. London 1900.
- Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt (eds.) The Amherst Papyri, Beeing an account of the greek papyri (Part II) in the collection of the right hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney, FSA at Didlington Hall, Norfolk. Part II, Classical fragments and documents of the ptolemaic roman an byzantine periods. With an appendix containing additional theological fragments. London 1901
Individual papyri
- Papyrus 12 (Papyrus Amherst 3B)
- Amherst Papyrus 63
- Papyrus Amherst IX, see Astarte and the insatiable sea (Astarte-Papyrus, The gods against the sea)