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Object Type
Museum number: EA10554,57
Title: Series: The Greenfield Papyrus
Description: Book of the Dead of Nestanebetisheru; frame 57. Black line vignette (of Spell 153A) depicting a net and a tree. One of the pegs streching the net is adorned with a human head. No labels. Below is one column of hieratic text written in red and black ink: Spell 182.
Cultures/periods: 21st Dynasty (late); 22nd Dynasty (early)
Production date: 950 BC - 930 BC (circa)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: First Cache
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 54 centimetres (frame); Height: 48 centimetres (papyrus); Width: 25.70 centimetres (frame); Width: 22.50 centimetres (papyrus); Depth: 1 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. 93); Trismegistos / An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphic resources (134519) (http://www.trismegistos.org/text/134519)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2012 July – September, Tokyo, Mori museum, The Book of the Dead: Journey Through the Afterlife 2012, October - November, Fukuoka Museum of Art, The Book of the Dead 2013, May - September, Perth, Western Australian Museum, The Book of the Dead
Condition: Papyrus Survey: Condition Details: Papyrus: stained, loss Black ink Red ink Backed: brown paper Displayed in Room 62 until 1997 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: Nestanebetisheru; Named in inscription: Neskhons (Neskhons); Named in inscription: Panedjem II
Associated titles
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1910
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA10554,57
Registration number: 1910,0509.1.57
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: Frame.57
Conservation

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