The Amherst papyri are a collection of ancient papyri now mostly kept in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. [1] They were acquired by John Pierpont Morgan in 1912. [2] They are named for Lord Amherst of Hackney, who began assembling the collection in the 1860s through purchases from R. T. Lieder and John Lee. [3] He kept them at Didlington Hall in Norfolk. [1]
The collection includes or included 42 papyri in Egyptian written in hieroglyphic or hieratic script; [2] 84 in Coptic, of which only 37 were ever catalogued, the rest being described as "very decayed, powdery and worthless"; [2] and 237 mainly in Demotic Egyptian and Greek, but including a few in Coptic, Arabic and Latin. [4]
The Amherst papyri are a collection of ancient papyri now mostly kept in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. [1] They were acquired by John Pierpont Morgan in 1912. [2] They are named for Lord Amherst of Hackney, who began assembling the collection in the 1860s through purchases from R. T. Lieder and John Lee. [3] He kept them at Didlington Hall in Norfolk. [1]
The collection includes or included 42 papyri in Egyptian written in hieroglyphic or hieratic script; [2] 84 in Coptic, of which only 37 were ever catalogued, the rest being described as "very decayed, powdery and worthless"; [2] and 237 mainly in Demotic Egyptian and Greek, but including a few in Coptic, Arabic and Latin. [4]