| Papyrus Harris I | |
|---|---|
 Papyrus Harris I Pl. LXXVI | |
| Size | length: 41 meters |
| Created | c. 1152 BC |
| Discovered | before 1856 Egypt |
| Present location | London, England, United Kingdom |
Papyrus Harris I is also known as The Great Harris Papyrus and (less accurately) simply The Harris Papyrus (though there are a number of other papyri in the Harris collection). Its technical designation is Papyrus British Museum EA 9999. At 41 metres long, it is "the longest known papyrus from Egypt, with some 1,500 lines of text."[1] It was found in a tomb near Medinet Habu, across the Nile river from Luxor, Egypt, and purchased by collector Anthony Charles Harris (1790–1869) in 1855; it entered the collection of the British Museum in 1872.
Its editio princeps is the 1876 "Facsimile of an Egyptian Hieratic papyrus of the reign of Ramses III" published by the British Museum.[2]
- ^ Bryce, Trevor (1998). The Kingdom of the Hittites. Oxford University Press. p. 370. ISBN 978-0-19-924010-4.
- ^ "Birch, Samuel [Editor]: Facsimile of an Egyptian Hieratic papyrus of the reign of Ramses III, now in the British Museum: [bekannt unter dem Namen. Der große Papyrus Harris] (London, 1876)". digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved 2018-02-28.