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Object Type
Museum number: EA74135
Description: Third Intermediate Period Book of the Dead of Djedkhonsiufankh in hieratic script, extracted from Osiris figure 9870 into which it had been inserted without its opening vignette in the nineteenth century.
Cultures/periods
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Thebes (historic - Upper Egypt)
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 21.30 centimetres (maximum); Length: 74.50 centimetres (combined two main fragments)
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject: funerary; mortuary; ritual
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Condition: Papyrus Survey: Condition Details: Papyrus Black ink Red ink Mount Details: Sandwich: glass Binding: magic tape Binding: self adhesive tape Object Priority: A Mount Priority: C Overall Condition: B
Associated names: Named in inscription: Djedkhonsiufankh; Named in inscription: Nesirty (mother); Named in inscription: Bakenkhons (father); Associated with: Osiris
Associated titles
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1843
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA74135
Registration number: 1993,0120.11

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