Funerary Papyrus
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...
Artifact
| id |
id
550
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| contentType |
contentType
object
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| stage |
stage
normalized
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| provenance |
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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| rightsUri |
rightsUri
CC0
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| language |
language
en
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| pageCount |
pageCount
1
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| source |
source
import
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Source image fields (5)
Terms
Medium
red and black ink on papyrus
Genre
papyri (manuscripts)