Fragment of linen
- Accession Number
- W868
- Current Location
- House of Death (ground floor), Offerings case
- Object Type
- Written document
- Period
- Graeco-Roman Period
- Material
- Textile/fibres (Linen)
- Provenance
- Egypt
- Measurements
- Length: 690mm | Height: 100mm
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Animal
- Snake
- Divine Name
- Duamutef | Hapy (son of Horus) | Imsety | Qebehsenuef
Licensing details
- Description
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This section of linen is decorated with a hieratic text of Chapters 148 and 149 from the 'Book of the Dead'. Chapter 148 is a spell to provide the dead with nourishment, and Chapter 149 describes the fourteen mounds of the Underworld. The illustrations show the first five mounds (represented by horseshoe shapes). The figures of the Four Sons of Horus, and a snake (a serpent on the fourth mound is called 'Shooter of Two Knives') are being carried by three men and a man and animal headed deities brandishing knives. The owner of the fragment is Djed-Hor, son of Ta. It dates to the Graeco-Roman Period.
- Bibliography
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Anonymous. 1996. The face of Egypt: Swansea Festival exhibition: 5 October 1996–5 January 1997. Swansea: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. [Cat. 126] www.trismegistos.org/text/114180
- Last modified: 20 Nov 2022