manuscripts (object)

Fragments of hieratic accounts on papyrus, in red and black, not necessarily originally from the same manuscript or set of accounts. The fragments preserve parts of namelists and series of consecutive days. At least two bear palimpsest traces. From a card unmarked and given the conservation identity label 'layer 21' in 1995- conservation project. Mounted in one frame as five larger and one small fragment. From Kahun workmen's town

Lahun

town

late Middle Kingdom

LDUCE-UC32299

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology