[Book of the Dead, with polychrome illustrations]

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Undetermined
Description
papyrus

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Special Collections - Manuscripts Pharaonic Rolls, no. 4 North 10 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Summary note
    Includes all or parts of chapters 1 (vignette), 15G, 16 (vignette), 20, 52, 53, 54, 101, 102. A fragment containing a portion of chapter 20 of this copy of the book of the Dead is in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago (17242). See T. G. Allen, Egyptian Book of the Dead Documents, plate 51a.
    Notes
    • Owner's name is Pedimeh(y)et. His father's name is (N)espautitaui, a "first prophet of Re"; his mother's name is Lady Nebethutiyti.
    • Ptolemaic Period (?)
    Provenance
    Garrett Collection.
    Source acquisition
    Gift of Robert Garrett, Class of 1897.
    Publications about
    Unpublished.
    Other title(s)
    Pharaonic Rolls, no. 4
    OCLC
    1340237343
    Other standard number
    • GD 7964
    • GD 7965
    • GD 7966
    • GD 7968
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