Fragment Of The Book Of The Dead
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Apr 1888
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. James A. Grant Bey
notes: label: Notes
content: Script is more demotic than hieratic. ca. 2nd-1st cent. BC
label: Notes
content: Considered for NMNH exhibit Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt but eliminated. 2011 preliminary list for exhibit identifies as: A piece of a linen band, inscribed with the text of the Book of the Dead, depicting Osiris in front of a bark [a.k.a. barque, or ship] with Re-Horakhty and behind him a priest in front of bark with the woman whose mummy was wrapped with the band. C. 400-300 BC.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Jul 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Greco-Roman
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 020440
label: USNM Number
content: A129796-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Papyrus