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Bandage

Object Number:E430A
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Ptolemaic
Provenience: Egypt
Fayum
Period: Ptolemaic Period
Thirty-Third Dynasty
Date Made: 305-30 BCE
Early Date: -306
Late Date: -29
Section:Egyptian
Materials:Linen
Iconography:Book Of The Dead
Inscription Language:Hieratic
Credit Line:Purchased from William Flinders Petrie, 1890
Other Number:ES 430 - Original Number

Description

Mummy wrapping fragment. Linen bandage coontaining 2 columns of text with 6 lines each. There is a vignette of the deceased worshipping Thoth before a table with offerings. There is a line of text above and below the vignette.

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