papyrus
- Museum number
- EA10761,5
- Title
- Object: Papyrus Ramesseum 8
- Description
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P. Ramesseum 8, Frame 5. Papyrus written on the recto in hieratic script, while the verso is blank. The recto contains a magical text against headaches known as The Banquet of Hedjhotep. The text is written in horizontal with some vertical lines. This frame contains page 5. The papyrus was a half-height roll.
The papyrus is part of the collection of papyri found with a bundle of pens in a chest from a plundered late 13th dynasty tomb under the Ramesseum, apparently belonging to someone like a lector priest. Two of the papyri from the chest are in the Egyptian Museum Berlin (P. Ramesseum A and D); the objects are in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge and the Manchester Museum.
The papyri are very fragile, apparently due to dampness in the tomb-shaft. This papyrus was mounted on sheets of gelatin by Hugo Ibscher.
- Dimensions
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Length: 22.90 centimetres (frame)
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Width: 17.30 centimetres (frame)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- P. Ramesseum 8 page 5.
A. H. Gardiner, The Ramesseum Papyri (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1955), 11-12, pl. 35.
P. Meyrat, Le Papyrus Ramesseum VIII (Geneva: University of Geneva 2002), 11. pl. 5 [dissertation].
On the conservation of the papyri: B. Leach, 'A conservation history of the Ramesseum Papyri', JEA 92 (2006), 225-40.
On the tomb: R. B. Parkinson, Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories (Chichester and Malden: Wiley-Blackwell 2009), 138-72.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Papyrus Survey:
Condition Details:
Papyrus: fractured, fragile, loss, powdery, skeletal
Black ink
Backed: gelatin
Backed: gelatin
Supported overall: white paper
Transferred to horizontal storage 3 JAN 95
Mount Details:
Sandwich: glass
Binding: copydex self adhesive carpet tape
Object Priority: B
Mount Priority:B
Overall Condition: E
Curatorial condition comment:
poor
- Acquisition date
- 1956
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA10761,5
- Registration number
- 1956,0714.10.5
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Frame.5
