#funerary papyrus

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~ Vignette from funerary papyrus (Book of the Dead) from papyrus N 3149.

Period: Ptolemaic Period

Medium: Papyrus

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2009_0812_135914AA Budapest (by Hans Ollermann)

An anonymous Amduat papyrus, dating to the 21st Dynasty. At the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.

[An Egyptian papyrus, brown, with a black and red illustration of the solar barque. The prow is a snake looking back at the sun in the barque. The sun sits on a red base, and contains an eye of Horus. Two Maat feathers stand in front of it. The barque sits on the hieroglyph for "sky", beneath which Apophis is drawn with a thick black coiling line.]

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Funerary papyrus belonging to the singer Tiye, containing Chapter 125 of the “Book of the Dead”.  Artist unknown; ca. 975-945 BCE (late 21st Dynasty, Third Intermediate Period).  From Tiye’s tomb at Deir el-Bahari, Thebes; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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I took this photo in the Met Museum in 2017. According to the museum, each of the figures in the funerary papyrus of Sethnakhte represents a deity that he asks for a favour in exchange for his offering.

[Three figures on a papyrus, surrounded by columns of hieroglyphs. The left one is mummiform, the middle a hoopoe perched on a papyrus flower, the right a man in green clothes.] [Tumblr won’t let me add alt text to an image I’ve already queued?]

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Striking vignettes from the Third Intermediate Period funerary papyrus of Henuttawy, at the British Museum, featuring a self-fertilising Geb. The starry, ithyphallic god is Osiris. (The BM’s site notes the papyrus is *coughs* not on display.)

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2010_0924_140257AA NEUES MUSEUM, BERLIN (by Hans Ollermann)

This is a detail of a Twenty-Second Dynasty funerary papyrus, belonging to Sesech. That’s him making an offering to Amun in ram form, accompanied by Maat and Anubis.

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2009_0813_152401AA KHM by Hans Ollermann Via Flickr: Papyrus of Pai-Nefer-Nefer Khonsu-mes. Detail. Dynasty 21 11th-10th century  B.C. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

(This is just to the right of that.)

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A funerary papyrus from the Twenty-First Dynasty at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, with figures from the Tenth Hour of the Amduat. Flanking the red sun-disc (the right eye of the sun) atop two snakes are infant goddesses called “Red Crown” and “White Crown”. The goddesses who balance a second sun-disc (the left eye of the sun) atop the hieroglyph for “god” are called “She who fetters” (left) and “She who laments (or embraces) the gods”. Next appear the lioness goddesses Sekhmet and Menkeret. Wonderfully, the god at far left is called “Who acts clever”.