papyrus
- Museum number
- EA9994,5
- Description
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Frame 5: hieratic literary text; Late Egyptian Miscellanies.
- Dimensions
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Height: 27 centimetres (frame)
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Length: 67.30 centimetres (frame)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The so-called Papyrus Lansing is a New Egyptian 'Miscellany', or anthology of texts, praising the profession of the scribe, and it includes a eulogy of Wenmediamen's teacher.
Published: A. H. Gardiner, Late Egyptian Miscellanies (Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca 7; Brussels: Fondation Egyptologique Reine Elisabeth 1937).
R. Caminos, Late-Egyptian Miscellanies (Brown Egyptologicial Studies 1; London: Oxford University Press 1954).
G. Moers, 'Der Papyrus Lansing. Der Lob des Schreiberberufes in einer ägyptischen Schülerhandschrift aus dem ausgehenden Neuen Reich', in O. Kaiser (ed), Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments. Ergänzungslieferung (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus 2001), 109-142.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Papyrus Survey:
Condition Details:
Papyrus: salt precipitate, fractured, loss, cockled, deposit
Black ink
Red ink
Tabbed: kraft paper
Mount Details:
Sandwich: glass
Frame: wood
Object Priority: D
Mount Priority: A
Overall Condition: E
Curatorial condition comment:
good
- Acquisition date
- 1886
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA9994,5
- Registration number
- .9994.5
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Frame.5
