Editing Papyrus Harris I (section)

{{Short description|Manuscript}}
{{Infobox artefact
| image         = Papyrus Harris I Pl. LXXVI.jpg
| created       =  {{circa}} 1152 BC
|location=[[London]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom]]|size=length: 41 meters|discovered_place=[[Egypt]]|discovered_date=before 1856|caption=Papyrus Harris I Pl. LXXVI}}

'''Papyrus Harris I''' is also known as '''The Great Harris Papyrus''' and (less accurately) simply '''The Harris Papyrus''' (though there are a number of other papyri in the Harris collection). Its technical designation is ''Papyrus British Museum EA 9999''. At 41 metres long, it is "the longest known [[papyrus]] from [[Egypt]], with some 1,500 lines of text."<ref name="Bryce">{{cite book|title=The Kingdom of the Hittites|page=370|first=Trevor|last=Bryce|authorlink=Trevor R. Bryce|isbn=978-0-19-924010-4|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1998}}</ref> It was found in a tomb near [[Medinet Habu (temple)|Medinet Habu]], across the [[Nile river]] from [[Luxor, Egypt]], and purchased by collector [[Anthony Charles Harris]] (1790&ndash;1869) in 1855; it entered the collection of the [[British Museum]] in 1872.

Its [[editio princeps]] is the 1876 "Facsimile of an Egyptian Hieratic papyrus of the reign of Ramses III" published by the British Museum.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/birch1876/0002?sid=9ff7b2da1af7dd1df574e5b28c4021c0|title=Birch, Samuel [Editor]: Facsimile of an Egyptian Hieratic papyrus of the reign of Ramses III, now in the British Museum: [bekannt unter dem Namen. Der große Papyrus Harris] (London, 1876)|website=digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de|language=en|access-date=2018-02-28}}</ref>