manuscripts (object)

The first of two frames containing a series of fragments from miscellaneous hieratic accounts and four literary fragments on papyrus, in red (accounts) and black, some palimpsest, in different hands. From an envelope marked 'XLIX' deleted, and 'LXXVIII rubbish', with one fragment with four lines of report labelled in pencil 'LXXVIII.1'. The four literary fragments are mounted together at the bottom of one frame, and contain narrative verbal forms, and reference to a male deity and 'her hand'. From Lahun town site.

Lahun

town

late Middle Kingdom

LDUCE-UC32308i

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology