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papyrus
Object Type
papyrus
Museum number
EA74136,1
Description
Third Intermediate Period Book of the Dead of Dimutiudu in hieratic script, extracted from Osiris figure EA9872 into which it had been inserted without its opening vignette in the nineteenth century.
Cultures/periods
Third Intermediate
Findspot
Found/Acquired:
Thebes (historic - Upper Egypt)
Materials
papyrus
Dimensions
Height:
19.70 centimetres
(maximum)
Length:
94.50 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject
funerary
mortuary
ritual
Curator's comments
Nicholson and Shaw, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (Cambridge 2000), p. 233
Bibliographic references
Taylor 2010 / Journey through the afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
(no. 156)
Trismegistos / An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphic resources
(134535)
(http://www.trismegistos.org/text/134535)
Location
Not on display
Condition
Papyrus Survey: Condition Details: Papyrus Black ink Red ink Mount Details: Sandwich: glass Binding: self adhesive tape Object Priority: A Mount Priority: A Overall Condition: A
Associated names
Named in inscription:
Dimutiudu
Associated with:
Osiris
Associated titles
Inscription from:
Book of the Dead
Acquisition name
From:
Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl of Belmore
Acquisition date
1843
Department
Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number
EA74136,1
Registration number
1993,0120.12.1
Conservation
Treatment
: 1992