Textile

Mummy Cloth

Inscribed ink.

Fragment of linen mummy wrapping containing text and vignette from the Book of the Dead. This fragment has 2 columns of hieratic text with 4 lines each. Above the text is a vignette showing from right to left: a male figure standing before an offering table(?), a female figure with outstretched arms bowing before a recumbent sphinx, and the goddesses Isis and Nephthys. Black ink.