papyrus

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Object Type
Museum number: EA10322
Description: Book of the Dead of Khonsiu; black line vignette at top; Hieratic text in red and black ink.
Cultures/periods
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Egypt
Materials
Dimensions: Length: 48.40 centimetres (frame); Width: 22.80 centimetres (frame)
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject: funerary; mortuary; ritual
Curator's comments: Other parts of the same papyrus are BM EA10045, Zagreb 886 and Vienna KHM 3856-8, 3862, 3864 and 3866-9. Being studied as part of PhD by Ulrike Weinmann (University of Wuerzburg).
Bibliographic references: Quirke 1993 / Owners of funerary papyri in the British Museum (108); Trismegistos / An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphic resources (56958) (http://www.trismegistos.org/text/56958)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Papyrus Survey: Condition Details: Papyrus: bleached, cockled Black ink Red ink Backed: white paper Mount Details: Sandwich: glass (warped) Sandwich: board Binding: cloth (loose) Object Priority: B Mount Priority: A Overall Condition: B Curatorial condition comment: good
Subjects
Associated names: Named in inscription: Khonsiu; Named in inscription: Renpetnefret (mother); Representation of: Ra-Horakhty
Associated titles
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1830
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA10322
Registration number: .10322

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