ClassificationsAncient Egyptian Art
Polychrome Painted Papyrus Fragment
AAT Object Form/Functionpapyri (manuscripts)
Place CreatedEgypt, Africa
CultureEgyptian
MediumPapyrus, pigment
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
DimensionsMaximum (backing sheet): 6 1/4 × 4 1/2 in. (15.9 × 11.4 cm)
Object number2007.014.003.001B
Exhibition HistoryWilkie Brothers Institute, August 27, 1969Published ReferencesBonhams London, Antiquities and Tribal Art (26 April 2007), 84, lot 181.
Mahmoud Yacobu, "Papyrus Bibliotheque Nationale 128 in Paris: Ubersetzung und Kommentar," in Herausgehen am Tage: gesammelte Schriften zum altagyptischen Totenbuch, ed. Rita Lucarelli, et al. (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012), 229-37, plates 4-5.
ProvenanceEx coll. Leighton A. Wilkie (1900-1993), Santa Barbara, California. Thence by descent. Ex private collection, purchased August 2005, Des Plains, Illinois. Purchased by MCCM from Bonhams London, April 26, 2007, lot 181.
Status
Not on viewCollections
- Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art
