
Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool, World Museum
Inscribed Mummy Bandage
M11463
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Linen with a black ink inscription from the Book of the Dead.
Charles Gatty, 'Catalogue of the Mayer Collection' (London, 1879, p. 38) "188. Mummy Wrappings; six strips of linenwith portions of he Ritual of the Dead inscribed upon them in late hieratic writing, mostly the 18th chapter; on one is the name of the person from whose mummy they all most probably came, Har (or Horus), son of Ankhespeu".