Inscribed Mummy Bandages and Papyrus card

Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool, World Museum

Inscribed Mummy Bandages and Papyrus

330 BC - 30 BC about
1961.202.23

Currently not on display

World Museum

Information

Various fragments of linen with hieratic inscriptions and illustrations; and papyrus with Greek text. From different sources and previously stuck to to card and labelled "Small portions of very fine specimens of ancient Egyptian mummy cloth. With hieroglyphics".

Specifications

Accession number
1961.202.23
Collection type
Textile/Clothing
Culture
Ptolemaic
Date made
330 BC - 30 BC about
Collector
Frederick Richard Dixon-Nuttall
Place collected
Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt
Date collected
1929 before
Materials
Linen; Ink
Measurements
Overall: 61 mm x 150 mm
Credit line
Gift of Major W F Dixon Nuttall
Legal status
Permanent collection
Provenance
Dixon-Nuttall, William Francis, Donor, Inherited, Owned from: 1929, Donation, Ow…
Location
Item not currently on display