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Object Type: papyrus
Museum number: EA10554,5
Title: Series: The Greenfield Papyrus
Description: Book of the Dead of Nestanebetisheru; frame 5. Black line vignette of deceased and (her) Ba adoring Ra-Horakhty and a judge of the netherworld followed by a scene of the deceased in a booth before an offering table and a falcon on a standard to the right. Hieroglyphic labels in black ink identify Osiris and the deceased. One column of hieratic text written in black and red ink below. Spell 17, part.
Cultures/periods: 21st Dynasty (late); 22nd Dynasty (early)
Production date: 950 BC - 930 BC (circa)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: First Cache
Materials: papyrus
Dimensions: Height: 52.50 centimetres (frame); Height: 47.20 centimetres (papyrus); Width: 37.80 centimetres (frame); Width: 32.50 centimetres (papyrus); Depth: 1.30 centimetres (frame)
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject: funerary; mortuary; ritual
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
Bibliographic references: Budge 1912 / The Greenfield Papyrus in the British Museum; Quirke 1993 / Owners of funerary papyri in the British Museum (145); Taylor 2010 / Journey through the afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (no. 161); Trismegistos / An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphic resources (134519) (http://www.trismegistos.org/text/134519)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 1998 21 Apr-1999 3 Jul, London, The British Library, The Story of Writing 2005 Oct-2006 Feb, Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, Mummy: The Inside Story 2006 7 Mar-6 Aug, Mobile (Alabama), Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center, Mummy: The Inside Story 2006 6 Oct-2007 18 Feb, Tokyo, National Museum of Nature and Science, Mummy: The Inside Story 2007 17 Mar-17 Jun, Kobe City Museum, Mummy: The Inside Story 2010 4th Nov-2011 6th March, Round Reading Room BM, Book of the Dead 2012 7 July -17 September Mori museum, Tokyo, The Book of the Dead: Journey Through the Afterlife 2012 6 October-25 November, Fukuoka Museum of Art, The Book of the Dead: Journey Through the Afterlife 2015 4 Dec – 2016 29 May, National Museum of Singapore, ‘Treasures of the World’s Cultures’
Condition: Papyrus Survey: Condition Details: Papyrus: stained, deposit Black ink Red ink Backed: brown paper Checked for loan to London 1998 Checked for loan to Houston and Alabama 2005 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
Subjects: ancient egyptian deity
Associated names: Named in inscription: Nestanebetisheru; Named in inscription: Neskhons (Neskhons); Named in inscription: Panedjem II; Representation of: Ra-Horakhty
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Donated by: Mrs Edith Mary Greenfield
Acquisition date: 1910
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA10554,5
Registration number: 1910,0509.1.5
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: Frame.5
Conservation: Treatment: 06 Apr 1998; Treatment: 26 Jul 2010

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