manuscripts (object)

Series of fragments from probably one hieratic accounts papyrus, in black, in which a list of temple staff is followed and preceded by vertical columns of an epistolary text. From the card pencilled 'Head of Rank C. Kahun 1889. Lot II no.6' and given the conservation identity label 'layer 20' in 1995- conservation project. Mounted in one frame as four larger and fourteen smaller fragments. From Kahun workmen's town.

Lahun

town

late Middle Kingdom

LDUCE-UC32286

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology