papyrus
- Museum number
- EA10115
- Description
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Rectangular funerary papyrus, one of a pair, with remains of fourteen lines of black painted hieroglyphic and hieratic text, consisting of extracts from the Book of Breathings, spells for Cleopatra, daughter of Candace, a member of the family of Cornelius Pollius, Archon of Thebes in the time of Trajan. The document, folded horizontally, had a short hieroglyphic prayer for a happy burial written on the exterior, and would have been placed under the head or feet of the mummy.
- Production date
- 100-120 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 28 centimetres
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Width: 26.50 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Found in .6707
Found with .10114
Published:
S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, Fayum. Misteriosi volti dall'Egitto, London 1997, pp. 178-179 [136].
E.A. Wallis Budge, A Guide to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Egyptian Rooms (London 1922), p.298, no.24.
B.H. Stricker, OMRO 23 (1942), p.32.
Herbin, F.-R., Books of Breathing and Related Texts (Catalogue of the Books of the Dead and Other Related Texts in the British Museum IV), London, 2008, pp. 125-126, pls. 98-99.
- Location
- On display (G62/dc27)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1997 22 Oct-1998 30 Apr, Italy, Rome, Fondaione Memmo, Ancient Faces
- Condition
- Papyrus Survey:
Condition Details:
Papyrus: bleached, cockled, loss
Black ink
Backed: white paper
Backed: window verso checked for loan to Italy 1996 displayed in Room 60 until 1997
Mount Details:
Sandwich: glass
Binding: self adhesive linen tape
Object Priority: B
Mount Priority: A
Overall Condition: B
Curatorial condition comment:
fair
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Book of Breathing
- Acquisition date
- 1823
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA10115
- Registration number
- .10115
