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===Individual finds attributed to Elephantine=== Numerous smaller finds have been attributed to Elephantine:{{sfn|Porten|1996|pp=7–11}} * 1815–1819: [[Padua Aramaic papyri|a number of Aramaic letters]] and a demotic letter were presented by [[Giovanni Belzoni]] to the [[Musei Civici di Padova]] in 1819. * 1817–1818: ''Papyrus Bibliothèque Nationale'': Bibliothèque Nationale, Butehamun correspondence letter bought by Frédéric Cailliaud. * 1819 ''Papyrus Edmonstone'': A Greek manumission document was acquired in 1819 by Sir Archibald Edmonstone and is still in the hands of a private collector. * 1821: ''Papyrus Paris'': Bibliothèque Nationale, a Greek conveyance document from a traveler named Casati. * 1824: ''[[Turin Aramaic Papyrus]]'': acquired by [[Bernardino Drovetti]] and donated to the new [[Museo Egizio]] in [[Turin]] in 1824, a hieratic charge sheet against the Elephantine Khnum priests. Donated together with two other hieratic letters from the Butehamun correspondence probably sent from Elephantine. * 1828: ''Papyrus Leiden'': [[Giovanni Anastasi (merchant)|Giovanni Anastasi]] acquired, allegedly at Philae but presumably at Elephantine, on behalf of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, a 5th century Greek petition to Emperor Theodosius. * 1862: ''Papyrus Valençay'': A Ramesside hieratic letter from the collection of the Duke of Valençay, now in the private collection of Jean Morel in the Château de Fins, [[Dun-le-Poëlier]]. It may have been originally purchased in 1862–63 by Count [[Eustachy Tyszkiewicz]]. * 1881: ''Papyrus Dodgson'': In January, 1881 Elkanah Armitage acquired a demotic papyrus on Elephantine which he presented to Aquila Dodgson; it was subsequently passed in 1932 to the [[Ashmolean Museum]] in Oxford. * 1887: The ''Dream ostracon'' ([[Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum|CIS]] II 137, also known as NSI 73 and [[Kanaanäische und Aramäische Inschriften|KAI]] 270) is brought back from Elephantine by [[Adolf Erman]]. * 1896: three 6th dynasty hieratic papyri were acquired at Luxor for the [[Berlin State Museums]]. * 1898: The hieratic [[Semna Despatches]] discovered by [[James Quibell]] in Thebes included one sent from Elephantine. * 1909: The [[Pushkin Museum]] acquired a demotic papyrus from the collection of [[Vladimir Golenishchev]]. * 1914: Sayce gave the Bodleian Library a Coptic ostracon. * 1920: James Henry Breasted purchased from Mohareb Todrous at Luxor for the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago an Arabic reddish brown leather parchment. * 1927: ''Papyrus Lob'': Spiegelberg acquired for the Staatliche Sammlung Agyptischer Kunst in Munich a demotic papyrus which became known by the name of the benefactor Dr. James Lob. * 1930: The Bristol Museum and Art Gallery acquired a Coptic ostracon from [[Francis Fox Tuckett]]. * Early 1930s: [[Berlin State Museums]] acquired a unique hieratic leather document.
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