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Object Type
Museum number: EA10037,2
Description: Book of the Dead of Hornedjitef; frame 2; row of black outline vignettes at top; Hieratic text in red and black ink.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 3rdC BC
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Asasif (Thebes)
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 49.80 centimetres (frame); Length: 64.40 centimetres (frame)
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject: funerary; mortuary; ritual
Curator's comments: Mosher, Malcom Jr. 2016. The Book of the Dead, Saite through Ptolemaic periods : a study of traditions evident in versions of texts and vignettes (SPBD Studies), vol. I (BD Spells 1-15) and II (BD Spells 16, 18-30), Charleston.
Bibliographic references: Quirke 1993 / Owners of funerary papyri in the British Museum (80); Strudwick 2006 / Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt (p.294-6); Trismegistos / An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphic resources (48381) (http://www.trismegistos.org/text/48381)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Papyrus Survey: Condition Details: Papyrus: fractured, loss Black ink Red ink Backed: white paper Mount Details: Sandwich: glass Binding: leather Object Priority: B Mount Priority: A Overall Condition: B Curatorial condition comment: fair
Associated names: Named in inscription: Hornedjitef; Named in inscription: Tadineferhotep (mother); Named in inscription: Nakhthorheb (father)
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Henry Salt; Purchased through: Sotheby's
Acquisition date: 1835
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA10037,2
Registration number: .10037.2
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: Frame.2
Conservation: Treatment: 23 Jul 1996; Treatment: 23 Jul 1996; Treatment: 04 May 1999; Treatment: 23 Jul 1996

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