MS. Egypt. a. 1 (P)

Trismegistos no.: 56958

Summary Catalogue no.: 30873a

Language(s): Egyptian in Hieratic and Hieroglyphic script

Book of the Dead

Abridgment of the Book of Respiration

One column of 48 lines of hieratic text, containing part of Spells 7-8, 15 and 17. Part of the prophet Khons-iu's Book of the Dead.

Physical Description

Form: roll

Support: papyrus

Extent: 1 well-preserved papyrus sheet in a frame

Dimensions: 662 × 327 mm.

Hand(s)

Likely written by one scribe; all in black ink, except for rubrics in red ink

Decoration

A skillfully drawn vignette in line drawing heads the column of script, showing scenes from the Field of Reeds found in the vignette of Spell 110. There is a short caption written in hieroglyphic script.

History

Origin: BC 249

Provenance and Acquisition

Memphis, Egypt (1st Lower Egyptian nome)

Provenance and source of acquisition unknown

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated by Lily Ashton (2025) from the following sources and bibliography as cited:

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Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

Marc Coenen, The Funerary Papyri of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 86 (2000) 84-85

Marc Coenen, The Egyptian Funerary Papyri in the Bodleian Library, Bodleian Library Record 16 (1999),84-85 454-455, 456 fig. 1

Stephen G.J. Quirke Owners of Funerary Papyri in the British Museum, (British Museum Occasional Papers 92), London 1993, 44 and 107

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