papyrus
- Museum number
- EA10470,7
- Description
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Book of the Dead of Ani; frame 7; full colour vignettes; red borders. Spell 17 l. 1-35.
- Dimensions
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Length: 71.30 centimetres (frame)
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Width: 42 centimetres (frame)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Published:
Le Pharaon-Soleil Catalogue (Paris 1993): p. 100.
Goyon, Golvin, Martinet, La construction Pharaonique, p.23 fig.3.
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. 37, 100.
- Location
- On display (G63/dc2)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1986 Jun-Oct, Carmarthen Museum, A son of Luxor's Sands
1989 Jan-Mar, South Florida Science Museum, Imhotep's Egypt: Discovering Ancient Egyptian Technology
1989 Apr-Jun, Miami, Museum of Science, Imhotep's Egypt: Discovering Ancient Egyptian Technology
1989 Jul-Aug, Jacksonville Museum of Science History, Imhotep's Egypt: Discovering Ancient Egyptian Technology
1991/2 Nov-Feb, Marseille, Musée de la Vieille Charite, Jouer dans l'Antiquité
2010 4th Nov-2011 6th March, Round Reading Room BM, Book of the Dead
- Condition
- Papyrus Survey:
Condition Details:
Papyrus: bleached, fractured
Black ink
Red ink
Pigment: faded, friable
Backed: brown paper
Checked for loan USA 1988
Checked for loan to France 1990
Mount Details:
Sandwich: glass
Binding: Filmoplast T self adhesive linen tape. Grey.
Object Priority: B
Mount Priority: A
Overall Condition: B
Curatorial condition comment:
good
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Book of the Dead
- Acquisition date
- 1888
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA10470,7
- Registration number
- 1888,0515.1.7
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Frame.7
