manuscripts (object)

Fragments of hieratic accounts papyri, in red and black, some in agular (early?) hands, and of hieratic letters, in black, in vertical columns. From a card unmarked and given the conservation identity label 'layer 15' in 1995- conservation project. Mounted in one frame as seventeen fragments. The largest accounts fragment refers in rubric over linen account to the 'mayor Sabastet'. From Kahun workmen's town.

Lahun

town

late Middle Kingdom

LDUCE-UC32284

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology