papyrus
- Museum number
- EA10554,6
- Title
- Series: The Greenfield Papyrus
- Description
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Book of the Dead of Nestanebetisheru; frame 6.
Black line vignette of ancient Egyptian gatekeepers, a heron bird, a falcon on a standard, and the Rw.tj (the two lions holding the horizon). No labels. One column of hieratic text written in red and black ink below. Spell 17 continued.
- Production date
- 950 BC - 930 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 52.80 centimetres (frame)
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Height: 47.50 centimetres (papyrus)
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Width: 36.90 millimetres (frame)
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Width: 31.30 centimetres (papyrus)
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Depth: 0.70 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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Exhibited:
2010 4th Nov-2011 6th March, Round Reading Room BM, Book of the Dead
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
- EA10554,6
- Registration number
- 1910,0509.1.6
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Frame.6
