Adon Papyrus
The Adon Papyrus, also known as the Aramaic Saqqara Papyrus is an Aramaic papyrus found in 1942 at Saqqara.[1][2][3][4] It was first published in 1948 by André Dupont-Sommer.
It is currently in the Egyptian Museum (J. 86984=3483).
It is also known as KAI 266.
Bibliography[]
- A. Dupont-Sommer. Un papyrus araméen d’époque saïte découvert à Saqqara, Semitica, (n° I). Paris, 1948
- Bright, John. “A New Letter in Aramaic, Written to a Pharaoh of Egypt.” The Biblical Archaeologist, vol. 12, no. 2, 1949, pp. 46–52. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3209182. Accessed 22 May 2021.
- Fitzmyer, Joseph A. “The Aramaic Letter of King Adon to the Egyptian Pharaoh.” Biblica, vol. 46, no. 1, 1965, pp. 41–55. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/42641032. Accessed 22 May 2021.
Notes[]
- ^ Porten, Bezalel. “The Identity of King Adon.” The Biblical Archaeologist, vol. 44, no. 1, 1981, pp. 36–52. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3209735
- ^ Horn, Siegfried H.. "Where and When Was the Aramaic Saqqara Papyrus Written?." Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS) 6.1 (1968): Available at: https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/auss/vol6/iss1/3
- ^ Shea, William H. “Adon's Letter and the Babylonian Chronicle.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, no. 223, 1976, pp. 61–64. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1356723
- ^ Bright, John. “A New Letter in Aramaic, Written to a Pharaoh of Egypt.” The Biblical Archaeologist, vol. 12, no. 2, 1949, pp. 46–52. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3209182
Categories:
- 1942 archaeological discoveries
- Archaeological artifacts
- 10th-century BC works
- Aramaic Egyptian papyri