Textile
Bandage
Object Number:
E432B
Current Location:
Collections storage
Culture:
Ptolemaic
Provenience:
Egypt
Gurob
Period:
Ptolemaic Period
Thirty-Third Dynasty
Date Made:
305-30BC
Early Date:
-305
Late Date:
-30
Section:
Egyptian
Materials:
Linen
Iconography:
Book Of The Dead
Man
Goddess
Sycamore
Description:
Linen mummy wrapping fragment with hieratic text of the Book of the Dead. Inscribed for Iuhepim(?) son of Tasherentaihet. The Book of the Dead Chapters on this fragment are parts of 52-56. There are 2 vignettes: a man adoring a goddess in a sycamore tree and a man holding the hieroglyph for breath. In the multimedia photo E432B is on the bottom. E432A is the top.
Length:
27.2cm
Width:
10.6cm
Credit Line:
Excavated by William Flinders Petrie
Other Number:
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Searching for Ancient Egypt: (1997 - 1997)
Bibliography:
[Book] Silverman, David P. 1997. Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum. : Page/Fig./Plate: 260-63
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