papyrus
- Museum number
- EA10060
- Description
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Papyrus, start and finish are lost; Hieratic text. The papyrus contains a collection of literary texts. On the recto is a series of love songs, comprising a first cycle (1.1-4.1), a second cycle (4.1-6.2) followed by the Harpist's Song from the mansion of Intef (6.2-7.3), a third cycle (7.3-8.3), and a fourth cycle (8.3-8.12).
On the verso are two Late Egyptian stories: 'The Capture of Joppa' (1.1-3.14) and 'The Doomed Prince' (41.-8.14).
- Dimensions
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Height: 30.20 centimetres (Frame)
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Height: 19.90 centimetres (Papyrus (max))
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Length: 154.60 centimetres (Frame)
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Length: 143.50 centimetres (Papyrus)
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Weight: 8.20 kilograms (in frame)
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Depth: 4.30 centimetres (frame)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Maspero, G. 1886. Études égyptiennes, Vol 1. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale; Maisonneuve Frères et Ch. Leclerc.
Möller, G. 1920. Zur Datierung literarischer Handschriften aus der ersten Hälfte des Neuen Reichs in Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 56, 34-43.
Bourriau, Pharaohs and Mortals, no. 59
Lichtheim, M. 1976, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume II, p.189-192.
Simpson, W. K. (ed.) 2003. The literature of ancient Egypt: an anthology of stories, instructions, stelae, autobiographies, and poetry
Regulski, I. (ed.) 2022. Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt, pp. 212-3
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1 Apr-15 Sept 2006. Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum, 'Creative Writing'.
2022-2023 13 Oct-19 Feb, London, BM, Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt
- Condition
- Papyrus Survey:
Condition Details:
Papyrus: bleached, loss, skeletal
Black ink
Red ink
Displayed in Room 62 until 1997
Refused for loan to Munich 2002
Refused for loan to Monaco 2008
Mount Details:
Sandwich: glass
Frame: wood
Object Priority: A
Mount Priority: A
Overall Condition: C
Curatorial condition comment:
fair
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA10060
- Registration number
- 1872,1101.2
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Harris 500
