| Object Number | 36-2-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Ptolemaic | Roman |
| Provenience | Egypt |
| Period | Ptolemaic Period | Roman Period |
| Date Made | 305 BCE-30 CE |
| Section | Egyptian |
| Materials | Linen | Pigment |
| Technique | Painted |
| Iconography | Deities | Demons | Skeleton | Osiris | Anubis | Jackal | Deceased | Funerary Text |
| Inscription Language | Hieroglyphic |
| Description | Decorated Mummy Cloth, Inscribed Hor, son of Harsieset, born of Tedikhety(?), etc. (1936) Fragmentary funeary shroud of painted linen. 8 rows of scenes of deities facing a central image of the deceased in a mummiform shape (now largely destroyed. Interesting is a depiction of a black skeleton in line 2. There is a funerary text running along the side and bottom of the shroud. |
| Credit Line | Purchased from John Khayat, 1936 |
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