Papyrus Amherst 63

Papyrus Amherst 63
Fragment 4 of Papyrus Amherst 63 in the Pierpont Morgan Library
Discovered1896
Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt
Present locationNew York and Michigan, United States

Papyrus Amherst 63 (CoS 1.99) is an ancient Egyptian papyrus from the third century BC containing Aramaic texts in demotic Egyptian script. The 35 texts date to the eighth and seventh centuries BC. One of these, a version of Psalm 20, provides an "unprecedented" extrabiblical parallel to a text from the Hebrew Bible. It syncretizes abundantly, including the names Anat Yaho and Bethel, and mentions a khnh, a word meaning priestess of Yaho.

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