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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Unpublished.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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