Textile

Bandage

E429B

From: Egypt | Fayum

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

Object Number E429B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Ptolemaic
Provenience Egypt | Fayum
Period Ptolemaic Period | Thirty-Third Dynasty
Date Made 305-30 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Linen
Iconography Book Of The Dead
Inscription Language Hieratic
Description

Linen fragment of a mummy wrapping containing three columns of text. The text on the right has six lines, the center, 9 lines and the left, 5 lines. Above the text on the right is a vignette which is largely destroyed. On the left there is a vignette which is also too fragmentary to identify.

Credit Line Purchased from William Flinders Petrie, 1890
Other Number ES 429 - Original Number

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