TY - BOOK ID - 2993417 TI - The Bankes Late Ramesside Papyri AU - Demarée, R. J. AU - Leach, Bridget AU - Usick, Patricia PY - 2006 VL - 155 SN - 0861591550 9780861591558 PB - London : British Museum, DB - UniCat KW - Bankes, William John KW - Egyptian language KW - Papyri KW - Manuscripts (Papyri) KW - England KW - London (England) KW - Hieratic writing KW - Manuscripts, Hieratic (Papyri) KW - Papyri, Hieratic KW - Bankes, William John, KW - British Museum. KW - British Museum KW - Bankes, william john (1786-1855) KW - British museum (londres). department of egyptian antiquities KW - Papyrus (manuscrits) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2993417 AB - This occasional paper publishes a group of papyri that supplement those included in J.J. Janssen’s comprehensive Late Ramesside Letters and Communications (Hieratic papyri in the British Museum VI, 1991). The papyri in this publication were transferred to the British Museum for specialist care, conservation and storage by the National Trust in the 1950s and 1990s when they were identified among the papers of William John Bankes (1786–1855), antiquarian and Egyptologist. The Bankes Papyri are a particularly exceptional group of manuscripts, since they include previously unknown letters by the best known of Ramesside correspondents – the necropolis scribes Dhutmose and Butehamon – and the missing half of an already published letter, now known to have been written almost certainly by the famous general Payankh. The papyri have been conserved by Bridget Leach of the Museum’s Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, and an account of this process is included here, together with a summary of Bankes’ travels in Egypt by Patricia Usick, honorary archivist in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, and Bankes’ biographer. ER -