Textile

Bandage

E428A

From: Egypt | Fayum

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E428A
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

Fragment of linen mummy wrapping with 7 lines of cursive hieratic. Above the text there is a vignette of the deceased facing left with his arms raised in adoration before 2 tables and a shrine with a god atop it.

Credit Line Purchased from William Flinders Petrie, 1890
Other Number ES 428 - Original Number

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