Manuscript
49-11-1
From: Egypt | Thebes (Egypt)
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
Object Number | 49-11-1 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Egypt | Thebes (Egypt) |
Period | New Kingdom | Twentieth Dynasty |
Date Made | 1190-1075 BCE |
Section | Egyptian |
Materials | Papyrus | Ink |
Iconography | Legal Document |
Inscription Language | Hieratic |
Description | Trials of grave robbers - end of document. Written only on the right two-thirds of the recto (horizontal fibres): juristic content. Large section intact on left; right section broken (ca. 14 pieces, most of them fitting together). The two sections seem to fit together. First column, on the broken right section of the papyrus, seems to include three paragraphs in 10 (6+1+3) lines; the beginning of the lines is lost. Second column, on the complete left section, includes two paragraphs in 10 (4+6) lines. Date: Ramses VI or later; his name in col. 1.5 |
Length | 65 cm |
Width | 18 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949 |
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