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]
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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^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.
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