Detail View: Papyri Collection: Book of the Dead

Reference number: 
Hieroglyphic MS 4
Side: 
recto
Image Number: 
JRL030550tr
Image Title: 
Book of the Dead
Subject: 
Death
Subject: 
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Subject: 
Rites and ceremonies
Description: 
Manuscript inscribed with vignettes and hieratic text from chapters of the Book of the Dead, written on a linen shroud. There are suspicions that this is a forgery, possibly copied from a facsimile of a genuine papyrus Book of the Dead in the 19th century.
Creation site: 
Egypt
Date created: 
3rd century BCE
Time period covered: 
750 - 1 BCE
Place covered: 
Egypt
Language: 
Egyptian
Language code: 
egy-EG
Item height: 
210 mm
Item width: 
520 mm
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Support material: 
Linen
Style Period: 
Ptolemaic
Current repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Former repository: 
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Category: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Scrolls
Image rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Image sequence number: 
hglm004r
Image technique: 
Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, January 2006
Metadata language: 
eng-GB