Textile

Bandage

E435A

From: Egypt | Fayum

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E435A
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 | baboons | solar barque
Inscription Language Hieratic
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 9.5 cm
Length 46 cm
Width 41 cm
Credit Line Purchased from William Flinders Petrie, 1890
Other Number ES 435 - Original Number

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