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Object Type
Museum number: EA10470,28
Description: Book of the Dead of Ani; frame 28; full colour vignettes; yellow double-borders. Spell 84; spell 81a; spell 80.
Cultures/periods
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Tomb of Ani (Thebes)
Materials
Dimensions: Length: 68.60 centimetres (frame); Width: 42 centimetres (frame)
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject: funerary; mortuary; ritual
Curator's comments: Published: Mosher, Catalogue of the Books of the Dead in the BM: The Papyrus of Hor, (2001), p.76 n.4. Tarasenko, Mykola. 2016. Studies on the vignettes from chapter 17 of the Book of the Dead. I, The image of mś.w Bdšt in ancient Egyptian mythology (Archaeopress Egyptology 16), Oxford, p. 100.
Bibliographic references: Quirke 1993 / Owners of funerary papyri in the British Museum (24); Trismegistos / An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphic resources (134357) (http://www.trismegistos.org/text/134357)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Papyrus Survey: Condition Details: Papyrus: cockled Black ink Red ink Pigment (loss) Backed: brown paper Mount Details: Sandwich: glass Sandwich: board Binding: Filmoplast T self adhesive linen tape Object Priority: B Mount Priority: A Overall Condition: B Curatorial condition comment: good
Associated names: Named in inscription: Ani; Named in inscription: Tutu (wife)
Associated titles
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA10470,28
Registration number: 1888,0515.1.28
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: Frame.28
Conservation: Treatment; Treatment: 04 May 1999; Treatment: 15 Sep 1997; Treatment: 10 Mar 1999; Treatment: 05 May 1995; Treatment: 27 Sep 2010; Treatment: 27 Sep 2010; Treatment; Treatment; Treatment: 24 Aug 1998; Treatment: 10 Mar 1999; Treatment: 23 Jul 1993; Treatment: 29 May 2009; Treatment: 04 May 1999

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