Drawing (P.Duk.inv. 880)

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150 dpi image of 880

Catalogue Record

Title: Drawing, [13th cent. B.C.]
Uniform title: Book of the dead.
Subject: Osiris (Egyptian deity) --Art --To 332 B.C.
	Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.) --Egypt --Religious aspects --Art --To 332 B.C.
	Literary papyri --Egypt --To 332 B.C.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, very incomplete ; 2 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 1.9 x 1.6 cm.
	Has black, red, and yellow ink.
	P.Duk.inv. 880 was drawn along the fibers on the recto.
	Papyrus fragment from Egypt with a drawing of part
	of a golden crook. Part of a larger drawing of Osiris
	in the Book of the Dead.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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