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Description: | Papyrus sheet from the 'Book of the Dead'. This particular piece depicts the hymn to the rising sun, Chapter 15 of the 'Book of the Dead'. The scroll belonged to Ankh-Hapi, son of Pa-Khered-en-Min and Ta-di-Aset. The illustration at the top shows a funeral ceremony in front of the tomb, a vignette which usually illustrates Chapter 1 in the New Kingdom but which by the Late Dynastic and Ptolemaic Period can be used to illustrate chapters 1-15. Anubis appears on this scene, together with the sacrifice of a bull, the implements used in the 'Opening of the Mouth Ceremony', etc. A priest carrying out a purification is shown and a lector priest with a headdress of two feathers. This particular piece is Late Dynastic-Ptolemaic. It was sold to Wellcome in Sotheby's sale of 1932. Published by Kate Bosse-Griffiths in ZAS 123 (1996) p97-102. Verhoeven (Verhoeven, U. 1998, 'Internationales Totenbuch-Puzzle' RdE 49, 221-232) discusses another piece of the same papyrus (P.London BM EA 9946. According to Verhoeven (1998, 229) our pieces were sold in the 1922 MacGregor sale. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | 600 B.C.
Late Period
Ptolemaic | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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