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Papyrus Anastasi V

Papyrus Anastasi V is a 19th Dynasty hieratic papyrus in the British Museum, a scribal miscellany best known for its report of two runaway slaves, dated to Seti II.

Papyrus Anastasi VI

Papyrus Anastasi VI is a hieratic papyrus in the British Museum whose famous passage records Shasu of Edom passing a Delta frontier fort to water their herds at Pithom.

Papyrus Anastasi VII

Papyrus Anastasi VII is a late 19th Dynasty Egyptian papyrus in the British Museum, preserving the end of the Teaching of Khety, or "Satire on Trades."

Papyrus Anastasi VIII

Papyrus Anastasi VIII is a Ramesside hieratic papyrus in the British Museum, carrying a formal letter from the scribe Ramose to Djehutiemhab, dated to the reign of Ramesses II.

Papyrus Bingen 45

Papyrus Bingen 45, often called the Cleopatra papyrus, is a Greek papyrus from Ptolemaic Egypt recording a grant of tax privileges issued under Cleopatra VII and dated to 33 BC.

Papyrus BM 10052

Papyrus BM 10052, also known as British Museum Papyrus 10052, is a hieratic papyrus recording the opening stages of the trial of the Theban Necropolis tomb robbers.

Papyrus BM 10053

Papyrus BM 10053, formerly Harris A, is a hieratic Egyptian official report on the robbery of Queen Isis's tomb by eight workmen of Deir el-Medina under Ramesses IX.

Papyrus BM 10068

Papyrus BM 10068, also known as British Museum Papyrus 10068, is a hieratic papyrus in the British Museum recording Theban tomb-robbery investigations under Ramesses IX and XI.

Papyrus Bologna 1086

Papyrus Bologna 1086 is a Ramesside letter papyrus in hieratic, held in Bologna, recording a message from the scribe Bak-en-Imen to the priest Ra-mesu in the reign of Sethos II.

Papyrus Boulaq 18

Papyrus Boulaq 18, also known as Papyrus Bulaq 18, is a hieratic administrative papyrus from Thebes recording an 11-day royal court visit in the 13th Dynasty.

Papyrus Brooklyn 35.1446

Papyrus Brooklyn 35.1446 is a late Middle Kingdom papyrus in the Brooklyn Museum, best known for its list of the household servants of the Theban noblewoman Senebtisi.

Papyrus Butehamun

Papyrus Butehamun is a group of hieratic letters between Theban necropolis scribe Butehamun and his father Djehutymes, written under Ramesses XI and held in Turin.

Papyrus Chester Beatty I

Papyrus Chester Beatty I is a Twentieth Dynasty papyrus in Dublin holding the sole copy of the Tale of Horus and Seth and ancient Egyptian love songs.

Papyrus Chester Beatty IV

Papyrus Chester Beatty IV is a Ramesside Egyptian literary papyrus in the British Museum, from Deir el-Medina, with hymns to Amun-Re and a student's miscellany praising writers.

Papyrus Lansing

Papyrus Lansing (pBM EA 9994) is a late 20th Dynasty hieratic papyrus in the British Museum, a scribal miscellany written by the scribe Nebmare-nakht for his pupil Wenemdiamun.

Papyrus Leopold II–Amherst

Papyrus Leopold II–Amherst is a hieratic Egyptian legal document recording an official investigation into tomb robbery in the Theban necropolis in Year 16 of Ramesses IX, centering on the quarryman Amenpnufer's confession.

Papyrus Mayer A

Papyrus Mayer A is a hieratic legal papyrus held at National Museums Liverpool, recording the trial of tomb robbers at Thebes in years 19 and 20 of Ramesses XI.

Papyrus of Ani

The Papyrus of Ani, also known as the Book of the Dead of Ani, is a funerary papyrus made for the scribe Ani about 1250 BC, now in the British Museum.

Papyrus Pushkin 127

Papyrus Pushkin 127, also Papyrus Golénishchev 127, is an Egyptian hieratic papyrus of the early Third Intermediate Period in Moscow's Pushkin Museum, known for the Tale of Woe.

Papyrus Salt 124

Papyrus Salt 124, also called Salt Papyrus 124, is an early 20th Dynasty Egyptian letter in which the workman Amennakht denounces the chief workman Paneb to the vizier Hori.

Papyrus Salt 825

Papyrus Salt 825 is a Ptolemaic-period Egyptian mythological-ritual papyrus in the British Museum, bought from Henry Salt's collection in 1835, preserving a Ritual of the House of Life.

Paraemheb

Paraemheb, also written Pra'emhab, was a vizier of Egypt who served under Amenmesse in the late Nineteenth Dynasty, around 1200 BC, during the succession struggle with Seti II.

Pareherwenemef (20th dynasty)

Pareherwenemef was a prince of ancient Egypt, the fifth-listed son of Ramesses III of the 20th Dynasty, buried in tomb QV 42 in the Valley of the Queens.

Parennefer (royal butler)

Parennefer was a royal butler and childhood tutor of Akhenaten, buried in Theban Tomb 188 and Amarna tomb 7, where his reward of gold is depicted.

Parennefer called Wennefer

Parennefer called Wennefer was a High Priest of Amun of ancient Egypt in the late 18th Dynasty, distinct from an earlier Parennefer, tutor of Akhenaten, and a later Wenennefer.

Paser (mayor of East Thebes)

Paser was mayor of Thebes, an official of Ramesses III's court in the early 20th Dynasty, known from relief blocks of his mortuary chapel found at Medinet Habu.

Paser (vizier)

Paser, also known as Paser I, was Vizier of the South under the pharaohs Seti I and Ramesses II, active from about 1285 to 1255 BC.

Paser II

Paser II was a Viceroy of Kush towards the end of Ramesses II's reign, son of Minmose, High Priest of Min and Isis at Akhmim.

Pashed

Pashed, usually written Pashedu, was a workman of Deir el-Medina in Egypt's 19th Dynasty who served under Sety I and Ramesses II and owned Theban tomb TT3.

Paweraa

Paweraa, also written Pewero, was mayor of the West of Thebes and chief of the necropolis police under Ramesses IX, known from the tomb robbery papyri.