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Object Type: papyrus
Museum number: EA9974
Description: Book of the Dead of Buhar; text never filled in(space prepared from Hieratic palimpsest); black outline offering vignette with caption.
Cultures/periods: Third Intermediate
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Egypt
Materials: papyrus
Dimensions: Height: 15 centimetres (frame); Length: 42.60 centimetres (frame)
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject: funerary; mortuary; ritual
Curator's comments: J.H. Taylor & D. Antoine, Ancient lives, new discoveries, London 2014, p. 102.
Bibliographic references: Quirke 1993 / Owners of funerary papyri in the British Museum (39); Taylor 2010 / Journey through the afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (no. 147); Trismegistos / An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphic resources (134527) (http://www.trismegistos.org/text/134527)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2010 4th Nov-2011 6th March, Round Reading Room BM, Book of the Dead
Condition: Papyrus Survey: Condition Details: Papyrus: deposit Black ink: palimpsest Backed: brown paper Mount Details: Sandwich: glass Binding: Filmoplast T self adhesive linen tape Object Priority: B Mount Priority: A Overall Condition: A Curatorial condition comment: good
Subjects: ancient egyptian deity
Associated names: Representation of: Ra
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Giovanni Anastasi
Acquisition date: 1839
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA9974
Registration number: .9974
Conservation: Treatment

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