Funerary Papyrus

ca. 304-30 BCE (Ptolemaic)

165 cm 41 cm

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The ancient Egyptians produced many types of funerary papyri, which were essential burial goods. This undecorated papyrus, which is written in hieratic, a cursive Egyptian script, belonged to a man named Padikem. The spacing of the words indicates that the text was written wit...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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