ANTHONY CHARLES HARRIS

'Anthony Charles Harris' (born 1790, died 1869) was a noted collector of ancient Egyptian papyri. As antiquary and merchant he was based in Alexandria, Egypt for the last four decades of his life. He made many trips upriver where he acquired papyri and artefacts. An amateur, he had a good understanding of hieroglyphs as was acknowledged by Brugsch.^[1]
His collection included

★ The Great Harris Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Harris I, a list of temple endowments by Ramses III

★ The Papyrus Harris II

★ The Papyrus Harris 500, a literary papyrus containing two tales and poetry

★ The Papyrus Harris 501 which contained a magical text
Selima Harris, his adopted daughter, offered his collection for sale in 1871 for £10,000; ^[2] and it was bought by Samuel Birch of the British Museum in 1872.

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References

★ Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald, ''The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale'', Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2001

★ Heinrich Brugsch, ''My Life and My Travels'', Berlin 1894

Footnotes

1. Brugsch, Chapter 3, p.
2. Nightingale, p.298