In the same pit where I found mummies in cases, I have found others without, and in these, papyri are most likely to be met with.
The historical papyri are records of the kings or accounts of contemporary events.
It was used to transcribe hieroglyphic and hieratic inscriptions and papyri into the common idiom until the second century A.
The most remarkable medical papyri are to be found in the Berlin Museum.
It is only the other day that, among the Fayyum papyri now in the British Museum, there was found a fragment of the Septuagint version of the Psalms older than the oldest MS.
We must not forget that it was he who employed Manetho, the priest of Sebennytos, to write in Greek the history of his country, which he compiled from the hieroglyphic monuments and hieratic papyri of the native temples.
He also sent 7000 Samaritans into the Thebaid; some of them were settled in the Fayyum, and in the papyridiscovered by Professor Petrie at Hawara mention is made of a village which they had named Samaria.
The precious papyri perished in the flames, and the rooms in which the learning and talent of the Greek world had been gathered together were a heap of blackened ruins.
His long reign, moreover, was a period of great literary activity, and a considerable portion of the literary papyri which have survived to us was written during his lifetime.
The name of this district was already known from papyri of the age of the nineteenth dynasty, and Dr.
Fragments of papyri inscribed with Greek and demotic have been found at the north-eastern foot of the hillock, and it may be that they mark the site of the chamber where Herodotos listened to the words of the roll.
Perhaps some day the papyri of Egypt will tell us where exactly to look for it.
The tombs and the papyri which contain the Book of the Dead and other kindred works reveal the nature of belief in a future life, with the changes which it underwent at different times.
The references to the myth in papyri and on the monuments, though obscure and fragmentary, confirm the narrative of the De Iside.
Rich and Hull, and the Egyptian papyri presented by Sir J.
Champollion, who had been on the same pursuit, examined the fine collection of papyri in the museum at Turin, and afterwards went to Egypt to pursue his studies on hieroglyphics, to our knowledge of which he contributed greatly.
He took the papyri from Esther, and, reserving one, rolled them and offered them to Ben-Hur.
I said awhile ago, you may remember, that to papyri we intrusted all the secrets of our religion except one; of that I will now tell you.
Budge published a new edition of the whole papyrus in Egyptian Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum (1910), and the two versions of the Creation myth are given together in his Gods of the Egyptians, Vol.
The Elephantine papyri have shown that the early Jews of the Diaspora, though untrammeled by the orthodoxy of Jerusalem, maintained the purity of their local cult in the face of considerable difficulties.
A slight open space at the left of a line, analogous to modern indentation in the margin at the beginning of a paragraph, made its appearance first on the papyri at Alexandria.
The workmen painted in his papyri made shoes for him and cooked his food; they carried him to hunt in the deserts or to fish in the marshes.
The scene in question is figured upon many of the tombs visited by the Greek travellers, and in many of the illustrated papyri which were unrolled for their gratification.
We now know from numerous papyri that in Egypt the family went to the home city.
The facts are undisputed and have a most interesting parallel in the papyri fragments of some of the less educated writers of the Koine as one can see for himself in Milligan's Greek Papyri or in any other collection.
But Ramsay has triumphantly vindicated Luke and the general census under Augustus by proof from the papyri that Augustus inaugurated a periodical census every fourteen years from B.
Many recovered remains have not yet been classified, and rolls of papyri lie still untranslated, so undoubtedly the future will make many contributions to what has already been worked out.
Vast numbers of papyri have undoubtedly perished, but reference would probably be made in existing manuscripts to great productions, and these are lacking.
The steward's creditors divided his little possessions; nothing but the chest of papyri followed the girl to her new home.
Fenshawe bent over the table, and asked Royson to go through the papyri with him, comparing the Greek, word for word, with the translation.
Some Observations and Experiments on the Papyri found in the ruins of Herculaneum.
Papyri from a Jewish colony in Elephantine (407 B.
Author of Arabic Papyri of the Bodleian Library; Mohammed and the Rise of Islam; Cairo, Jerusalem and Damascus.
Jews were prepared to give in return; the points of resemblance are extremely interesting, but compared with the biblical documents the papyri reveal some striking differences.
As the papyri of Egypt have been forced to give up their secrets, so have the clay cylinders of Mesopotamia.
Among the unrivalled collection of Greek papyri are the unique MSS.
Latin papyri of the 6th century, over 50 Latin Bibles, many illuminated books with miniatures, and the autographs of G.
Even as the general swam, Drusus observed that he held up a package of papyri in his left hand to keep it out of the wet; in uttermost perils Cæsar could not forget his books.
The papyri numbered 1,806, though by no means all were separate treatises, while some were mere scraps.
But the rolls of papyri were sadly like mere lumps of charcoal.
Beauty and virginity are insisted on in various passages in the magical papyri (see Abt op.
Moses appears as a magician in the magical papyri (Griffiths Thompson pap.
Their affinity with the Accadians of Chaldaea is clearly proved by their language, which the recent discovery of papyri at Tell-el-Amara, containing despatches from the tributary King of the Hittites to Amenophus IV.
Hence I am of opinion that the bronze cylinder referred to--if it has been found and still exists--was placed with these papyri in the tomb at a much later date.
Suddenly it occurred to me that the existence of any papyri of great interest would probably be known in the Egyptian Department of the British Museum.
What do you think it could have contained--what is the Thing to which the papyri refers!
Without telling him too many details, I related the story I had heard of the finding of a bronze cylinder in the tomb of King Merenptah, and that certain papyriwere discovered with it.
So, replacing the papyri in its bronze case, we took it with us in a taxi, and half an hour later sat in the room of the professor, the same eminent Egyptologist whom I had seen on my previous visit there.
All I know is, that together with the cylinder he discovered some ancient papyri recounting the terrible fate which would befall its possessors, and warning any one against handling, possessing, or opening it.
Personally, I believe that by this important papyri the great treasures which Cleopatra was known to possess, and of which history gives us no account after her death, may actually be recovered.
Then knowledge of this papyri must be kept a profound secret, and the Egyptian Government approached in confidence with a view to allowing exploration in the vicinity," Fryer said, his business instinct at once asserting itself.
The papyri I have still locked away, awaiting his return.
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