manuscripts (object)

The first of two frames that contain a large series of fragments from miscellaneous hieratic letters and accounts on papyrus, in red and black, in different hands. From an envelope marked 'one lot' and 'XLIII.rubbish'. From Kahun workmen's town.

Lahun

town

- Bascombe, Louise, Ready, Steady, Conservation! [UCL Culture blog]

late Middle Kingdom

LDUCE-UC32304i

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology