papyrus
- Museum number
- EA10686,1
- Title
- Object: Papyrus Chester Beatty 6
- Description
-
Papyrus Chester Beatty VI; sheet 1; Hieratic text recto: medical treatise.
Recto 1-6.
- Dimensions
-
Length: 94.50 centimetres (frame)
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Width: 24 centimetres (frame)
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
-
Under study by Susanne Beck (London).
-
Published:
Gardiner, Hieratic Papyri Vol. 1, p. 53-4. Vol. 2 Plate 30, Recto 1-5; Plates 31 & 31A, Recto 6. (Recto = Medical Prescriptions.)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2009 May-Jan 2024, Newcastle, Great North Museum, LT Loan Ancient Egypt British Museum Partnership Gallery
- Condition
- Papyrus Survey:
Condition Details:
Papyrus: fractured, loss, fragmentary, bloom
Black ink
Red ink
Tabbed: silk:
Checked for loan to Newcastle 2009 (2006)
Mount Details:
Sandwich: glass
Binding: filmoplast t self adhesive linen tape
Object Priority: A
Mount Priority: B
Overall Condition: B
Curatorial condition comment:
incomplete/fragmentary
- Acquisition date
- 1930
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA10686,1
- Registration number
- 1930,0710.5.1
- Additional IDs
-
Miscellaneous number: Frame.1
