- Museum number
- EA10471,13
- Description
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Book of the Dead of Nakht; frame 13; flax-harvesting vignette; sixteen columns of Hieroglyphic text.
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Published:
Shaw and Nicholson, BM Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, 1995, p.53.
The Treasures of the British Museum. p. 80, pl. 62.
Kitchen, Ram. Insc. Vol 1, p. 321.
Lucarelli, Rita. 2015. The inhabitants of the Fourteenth Hill of Spell 149 of the Book of the Dead. In Morenz, Ludwig D. and Amr El Hawary (eds). Weitergabe: Festschrift für die Ägyptologin Ursula Rößler-Köhler zum 65. Geburtstag, 275-291. Weisbaden: Harrassowitz.
N. Billing, Nut the Goddess of Life, USE 5 (2002), p. 331, fig. A.6 (drawing).
Tarasenko, M. 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. 86, 91, 93.
Tarasenko, M. 2020. The Vignettes of Chapter 17 from the Book of the Dead as found in the Papyrus of Nakht (Papyrus London BM EA 10471): At the Beginnning of the Ramesside Iconographic Tradition, Journal of the Hellenistic Institute of Egyptology 3, 131-146.
- Location
- On display (G63/dc3)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1990 20 Oct-9 Dec, Japan, Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.62
1991 5 Jan-20 Feb, Japan, Yamaguchi, Prefectural Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.62
1991 9 Mar-7 May, Japan, Osaka, National Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.62
- Condition
- Papyrus Survey:
Condition Details:
Papyrus: bleached, loss
Black ink
Red ink
Pigment: faded
Backed: brown paper
Checked for loan to USA 1999
Displayed in Room 63 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 the Dead
- Acquisition date
- 1888
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA10471,13
- Registration number
- 1888,0512.101.13
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Frame.13
