papyrus
- Museum number
- EA10554,25
- Title
- Series: The Greenfield Papyrus
- Description
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Book of the Dead of Nestanebetisheru; frame 25.
Black line vignette showing three groups of seated ancient Egyptian gatekeepers on blocks and the deceased kneeling for two of them. The middle group shows the Four Sons of Horus. Below vignette, a column of hieratic text (Spell 134) written in red and black ink; small gap at bottom left blank but fills width of sheet.
- Production date
- 950 BC - 930 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 53.40 centimetres (frame)
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Width: 38.70 centimetres (frame)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Published:
Budge, E. A. Wallis, The Greenfield papyrus in the British Museum: the funerary papyrus of Princess Nesitanebtashru, daughter of Painetchem II and Nesi-Khensu, and priestess of Amen-Ra at Thebes, about B.C. 970. London, 1912.
Hughes, Richard Smith, The vignettes in the Greenfield Papyrus in the British Museum (BM EA 10554): the Book of the Dead of Nest-ta-nebt-ashru (950-930 BC) . Ridgecrest, 2013.
Cfr.
Mosher, Catalogue of the Books of the Dead in the BM: The Papyrus of Hor, (2001), p.80 n.25.
N. Billing, Nut the Goddess of Life, USE 5 (2002), p. 331, fig. A.3.
Nicholson and Shaw, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (Cambridge 2000), p. 119, p.233 fig.9.3
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2012 7 July -17 September Mori museum, Tokyo & 6 October-25 November, Fukuoka Museum of Art, The Book of the Dead: Journey Through the Afterlife
- Condition
- Papyrus Survey:
Condition Details:
Papyrus: stained
Black ink
Red ink
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 titles
Associated Title: Book of the Dead
- Acquisition date
- 1910
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA10554,25
- Registration number
- 1910,0509.1.25
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Frame.25
