The Adon Papyrus, also known as the Aramaic Saqqara Papyrus is an Aramaic papyrus found in 1942 at Saqqara.[1][2][3][4] It was first published in 1948 by André Dupont-Sommer.[citation needed]

Adon Papyrus
Createdc. 600 BC
Discovered1942
Saqqara, Egypt
Discovered byZaki Saad Effendi
Present locationCairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

It is currently in the Egyptian Museum (J. 86984=3483).[citation needed]

It is also known as KAI 266 and TAD A1.1.

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  1. Porten, Bezalel (1981). "The Identity of King Adon". The Biblical Archaeologist. 44 (1): 36–52. doi:10.2307/3209735. JSTOR 3209735. S2CID 165242277.
  2. Horn, Siegfried (1968). "Where and When Was the Aramaic Saqqara Papyrus Written?". Andrews University Seminary Studies. 6 (1).
  3. Shea, William H. (1976). "Adon's Letter and the Babylonian Chronicle". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (223): 61–64. doi:10.2307/1356723. JSTOR 1356723. S2CID 163401332.
  4. Bright, John (1949). "A New Letter in Aramaic, Written to a Pharaoh of Egypt". The Biblical Archaeologist. 12 (2): 46–52. doi:10.2307/3209182. JSTOR 3209182. S2CID 186537648.