Lot 101
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A LARGE EGYPTIAN PAPYRUS FRAGMENT FROM CHAPTER 125 OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
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A LARGE EGYPTIAN PAPYRUS FRAGMENT FROM CHAPTER 125 OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XIX, CIRCA 1275 B.C.

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A LARGE EGYPTIAN PAPYRUS FRAGMENT FROM CHAPTER 125 OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XIX, CIRCA 1275 B.C.
With polychrome vignette showing the Assessors of the Dead with columns of hieroglyphic text, framed and glazed; and a smaller end section inscribed with a resumé of the previous text, mounted
Larger section 47½ x 85/8 in. (121 x 22 cm.); smaller section 8½ x 7¼ in. (21.5 x 18.4 cm.) max.
Provenance
Formerly in the Gaston Camille Maspero collection.
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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED: Métamorphoses, pp. 191 and 384.

The Book of the Dead papyrus fragment contains the vignette from Chapter 125 which depicts the 42 Assessors of the Dead in an elaborate shrine with open doors. Each is addressed by name, but the register below in which the commital of a specific sin would be denied is now lost. In this instance each assessor is shown as a mummiform figure with the ostrich feather of Maat (truth) on the head.

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