- Museum number
- EA9900,21
- Description
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Book of the Dead of Nebseny; frame 21. Spell 151; spell 168; spell 151; spell 180.
- Production date
- 15thC BC (reign of Thutmose IV, by style)
- Dimensions
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Height: 40.40 centimetres (frame)
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Length: 76 centimetres (frame)
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Weight: 6 kilograms
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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For bibliography and date see Irmtraut Munro, Untersuchungen zu den Totenbuch-Papyri der 18.ten Dynastie (London & New York 1987), 281, Katalog, a., 28; the manuscript is Aa in Naville, Tb.
J.H. Taylor & D. Antoine, Ancient lives, new discoveries, London 2014, p. 54.
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Published: G. Lapp, The Papyrus of Nebseni (Catalogue of the Books of the Dead in the British Museum 3, 2004).
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Tarasenko, Mykola. 2016. Studies on the vignettes from chapter 17 of the Book of the Dead. I, The image of mś.w Bdšt in ancient Egyptian mythology (Archaeopress Egyptology 16), Oxford, p. 92-93, 99.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006-2007 6 Oct-18 Feb, Tokyo, National Museum of Nature and Science, Mummy: The Inside Story
2007 17 Mar-17 Jun, Kobe City Museum, Mummy: The Inside Story
2010 4th Nov-2011 6th March, Round Reading Room BM, Book of the Dead
2012 July - September, Tokyo, Mori museum, The Book of the Dead: Journey Through the Afterlife
2012, October - November, Fukuoka Museum of Art, The Book of the Dead
2013, May - September, Perth, Western Australian Museum, The Book of the Dead
- Condition
- Papyrus Survey:
Condition Details:
Papyrus: abraded, bleached
Black ink
Red ink
Backed: brown paper
Checked for loan to Japan 2006
Mount Details:
Sandwich: glass
Binding: Filmoplast T self adhesive linen tape
Object Priority: A
Mount Priority: A
Overall Condition: B
Curatorial condition comment:
good (but fragmentary near start and sporadic lacunae)
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Book of the Dead
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA9900,21
- Registration number
- .9900.21
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Frame.21
