ABSTRACT
It is a singular and distressing fact that a very considerable proportion of the original written sources for Egyptian history and archaeology still remain unpublished. Egyptian texts are never easy, and many of the renderings are so uncertain that the scholarly translator hesitates to give them unless accompanied by the evidence necessary either to support them or to enable others to improve upon them. It is customary for historians of Egypt to dismiss the Twentieth Dynasty in a few pages as a period of decline ending in complete disaster. The papyrus, which as at present mounted measures 133 cm. by 41, is written on both sides in a large slanting script. It has its closest parallel in Papyrus Salt 124 of the British Museum. Each document, however, is described in some detail and this fact distinguishes the papyrus from Papyrus Ambras at Vienna, which gives the barest description of a series of documents dealing with the famous tomb-robberies.
