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papyrus
Object Type
papyrus
Museum number
EA10676,7
Description
P.Gardiner 2; frame 7 (four fragments); Hieratic text: Recto (l. 62-72) : Coffin Text spell 991 Verso (l. 752-3): Coffin Text spell 1028
Cultures/periods
First Intermediate
((?))
Middle Kingdom
((?))
Findspot
Found/Acquired:
Egypt
Materials
papyrus
Dimensions
Length:
37 centimetres
(frame)
Width:
25.60 centimetres
(frame)
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject
mortuary
ritual
Curator's comments
Bibliography: Gestermann, L. 2003. Neues zu Pap. Gardiner II (BM EA 10676), in Z. A. Hawass and L. Pinch Brock (eds.), Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty- first Century: Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists Cairo, 2000, vol. 1, 202-8. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press. Regulski, I. 2018. Writing habits as identity marker: on sign formation in Papyrus Gardiner II, in: S.A. Gulden, K. van der Moezel, U. Verhoeven (eds), Ägyptologische „Binsen“-Weisheiten III. Formen und Funktionen von Zeichenliste und Paläographie. Mainz, 235-265.
Bibliographic references
Trismegistos / An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphic resources
(381090)
(http://www.trismegistos.org/text/381090)
Location
Not on display
Condition
Papyrus Survey: Condition Details: Papyrus: dark, fragmentary, insect attack, fractured Black ink Red ink Tabbed: silk Mount Details: Sandwich: glass Binding: self adhesive tape Object Priority: A Mount Priority: A Overall Condition: C Curatorial condition comment: incomplete/fragmentary
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner
Acquisition date
1933
Department
Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number
EA10676,7
Registration number
1933,0708.1.7
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number:
Frame.7
Miscellaneous number:
P.Gardiner 2
Conservation
Treatment
: 14 Jul 2005
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: 10 Mar 1999
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