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- Museum number
- EA10346
- Description
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Book of the Dead of Hepu on two strips of linen; black line vignettes; Hieratic text.
- Dimensions
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Length: 93 centimetres (frame when extended)
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Width: 10.20 centimetres (frame)
- $Inscriptions
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- 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.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Papyrus Survey:
Condition Details:
Textile: discoloured, loss, stained
Black ink
Backed: brown paper
Mount Details:
Sandwich: glass
Sandwich: board
Binding: leather (deteriorated)
Object Priority: B
Mount Priority: B
Overall Condition: C
Curatorial condition comment:
good
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Book of the Dead
- Acquisition date
- 1834
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA10346
- Registration number
- .10346
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Sams 14