Tomb Robbery Papyrus (Papyrus Mayer B)

Papyrus Mayer B is part of a confession of robberies in the tomb of Ramesses VI (KV9) in the late Ramesside era, probably during year 8 or 9 of Ramesses X (Khepermaatre) about 1118 BC. It consists of fourteen horizontal lines but is unfortunately no more than a fragment. Its beginning and end are both incomplete, and it doubtless formed part of a long document of which no other portion has survived.

The papyrus was unrolled and mounted on linen by Constantine Simonides (1820-1867) for Joseph Mayer who acquired the papyrus in 1855 from Revd. Henry Stobart.