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Fragment of a mortuary covering
Ptolemaic Period – Roman Period 332 BCE-395 CE

Medium
painted gesso on cartonnage
Measurements
8.0 × 15.3 × 1.0 cm irreg.
Place/s of Execution
Egypt
Accession Number
15F-D1A
Department
Antiquities
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by James E. Sherrard Esq., 1881
Gallery location
Not on display
Physical description
Section of cartonnage containing the vignette from the CLIVth chapter of the Saite Recension of the Book of the Dead, which is entitled 'The Chapter of not letting the body perish'. The vignette, which is wanting in the Theban version, depicts the mummy of the deceased on a funeral bier with its soul (in the form of a human headed hawk) hovering above.