Book of the Dead Fragments
1973.2.494
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Fragments within a small glass frame. Various manuscripts all hieratic. Seen by Dr Luigi Prada (University of Oxford) 6 May 2015.
Label stuck on the front says 'Papyrus. Inscribed with Hieroglyphic and Demotic Writing. The Rev. W. L. Lawson. Egypt.'
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum accession no. 117459; Purchased at Steven's Auction House Ltd., Lot 391 20-21 October 1931.
CONDITION NOTE 1998: unsuitable mount.