Textile
Bandage
Object Number:
E435A
Current Location:
Collections storage
Culture:
Ptolemaic
Provenience:
Egypt
Fayum
Period:
Ptolemaic Period
Thirty-Third Dynasty
Date Made:
305-30 BC
Early Date:
-305
Late Date:
-30
Section:
Egyptian
Materials:
Linen
Iconography:
Book Of The Dead
baboons
solar barque
Description:
Fragment of linen mummy wrapping with one line of hieratic text (Chapter 1 of the Book of the Dead) and a vignette of the deceased and four baboons adoring the solar barque.
Height:
9.5cm
Length:
46cm
Width:
41cm
Credit Line:
Excavated by William Flinders Petrie
Other Number:
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Searching for Ancient Egypt: (1997 - 1997)
Bibliography:
[Book] Kreamer, Christine M. 2012. African Cosmos: Stellar Arts. 368. : Page/Fig./Plate: 64/3.2
[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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