Hieratic Papyri in the University of Pennsylvania Museum Collection

Compiled by Robert A. Kraft, starting 10 August 2010 [latest update 10au2010]

This information has been extracted from the provisional Museum Inventory list.

Bold type indicates that the scanned image is available at the official SCETI site (in process 13 January 2009); most other image links are "unofficial," from digital images taken by R.A.Kraft for research purposes, with permission of the Egyptology section, starting in Fall 2008. Due to ongoing work by the Egyptology Section at the University Museum, most of these images have not been made available online.

 

29-086-487 papyrus, four small HIERATIC pieces probably from the same document -- / blank ||

  DAN "No 1 area ... (118)"

  RAK digital images 05my2010 [*7932; access restricted]

29-086-488 papyrus, three + three HIERATIC pieces (two on both sides), probably from the same document

  DAN "No 1 area ... (157)"

  RAK digital images 05my2010 [*7930-31; access restricted]

29-086-489  papyrus, about 30 + 34 total pieces, with Hieratic and drawings (one side only); some layered lumps need separation (blackish adhesive); it is not clear how many separate documents are represented (at least two, probably more).

  DAN 204

  RAK digital images 05my2010 [*7943-46; access restricted]

29-086-490 papyrus, four plates with Hieratic pieces and drawings (one side only); some pieces still need flattening); it is not clear how many separate documents are represented.

  DAN 213 

  RAK digital images 10mr2010 [7330-36; access restricted]

    plate 1 (about 20 + 40, mostly drawings)

    plate 2 (15 + 3, pieces of text)

    plate 3 (about 15 + 35, pieces of text)

    plate 4 (about 15 unflattened pieces)

29-086-491  papyrus, two plates with Hieroglyphic and Hieratic pieces and drawings (one side only); at least two separate documents seem to be represented.   

 DAN 229          

  RAK digital images 17mr2010 [7440-43; access restricted]

    plate 1 (about 14 + 26 similar pieces with Hieroglyphic text and drawings)

    plate 2 (about 15 + 35 similar pieces, with Hieratic text and drawings)

 

29-086-496 papyrus, about 10 +17 Hieratic fragments, possibly from the same document, one side only [get images of other side of 4581]

  DAN 513  

  RAK digital images 12my2009 [4579-82; access restricted]

29-086-497 papyrus, about 14 + 10 HIERATIC pieces from a scroll, beautiful hand, in layers held together by blackish sealing wax [need separation]

  RAK digital images 05my2010 [*7941-42, 7932; access restricted]

 

29-086-499 papyrus,  two pieces:

  Hieratic -- / blank || [access restricted]

  COPTIC (other side)  five+ lines || / single "address line" --

  DAN "158 Court ... (653) a, b"

  RAK poor digital images 12my2009 [(*)4545-46]

  RAK new digital images 05my2010 [*7934-35]

29-086-500a papyrus, four similar HIERATIC pieces -- / blank ||

  DAN 300 X (720.a) [*7932-33; access restricted]

  RAK digital images 05my2010

29-086-500b papyrus, mounted Hieratic piece (writing on both sides)

  DAN 300 X (720b) [*7947-48; access restricted]

   RAK digital images 05my2010

29-086-501 four small similar Hieroglyphic/Hieratic papyrus scraps, with drawing -- / blank || (traces of blackish substance)

  DAN 300 X (730)

  RAK digital images 12my2009 [4543-44; access restricted]

29-086-0502 papyrus, round box with papyrus dust (DAN "753" and other notations on cover)

  Two or three fragmentary Hieroglyphic/Hieratic, one side only [access restricted]

  Coptic #1 (both sides, folded over?), Coptic #2 (both sides)

  RAK digital images 12my2009 [**4562-67]

29-086-0503 [DAN 158] boxed, details unknown [3 small similar Hieratic fragments]

  RAK digital images 12my2009 [4547-48; access restricted]

 

29-087-0560 papyrus embedded in bitumen, four pieces (one a drawing of woman's head) probably from the same Hieroglyphic/Hieratic text  [access restricted])      

  DAN [get details]

  RAK digital images 12my2009 [4571-73]

 

38-028-026 HIERATIC [drawer 4] mounted on cardboard

  RAK digital images 03mr2010 [6743; access restricted]

  RAK digital image of info 05my2010 [7949]

 

49-011-0001 papyrus, HIERATIC [on display] Thebes, c 1100 bce; 0.61 m wide

  see black and white picture on p.55 of The Egyptian Mummy: Secrets and Science, by MASCA and the Egyptian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum (1980). "This fragment is probably part of the British Museum papyrus 10383" [published by T.Eric Peet in The Great Tomb-Robberies of the Tewentieth Egyptian Dynasty (Oxford: Clarendon (date?)) 122-127]. Deals with recovered contents of looted temple.

  Archive two partial prints of larger image, box 242 (neg 46673)

  [get more images]

 

83-001-0001 Hieratic with some Images "6th ch. Book of the Dead"

  RAK digital images 14ap2010 and 20ap2010 [*7762-82, 7800-02; access restricted]

83-001-0001A papyrus, HIERATIC

83-001-0001B papyrus, HIERATIC

83-001-0001C papyrus, HIERATIC

83-001-0001D papyrus, HIERATIC

83-001-0001E papyrus, HIERATIC

83-001-0001F papyrus, HIERATIC

83-001-0001G papyrus, HIERATIC

83-001-0001H papyrus, HIERATIC

83-001-0001I papyrus, HIERATIC

83-001-0001J papyrus, HIERATIC

83-001-0001K papyrus, HIERATIC

83-001-0001L papyrus, HIERATIC

83-001-0001M papyrus, HIERATIC

83-001-0001N papyrus, HIERATIC

83-001-0001O papyrus, HIERATIC

 

E 15775 ARABIC Qur'an with label, A-C [but no Arabic was found under that number, which contained a jumbled mass of what proved to be Hieratic material in a plastic bag,  including a soft and pliable large Hieratic papyrus (access restricted), part of which was also in envelope B, plus some smaller scraps; a different hieratic document is in envelope C (access restricted)]

  RAK digital images 09je2009 [4828-39], and envelope C again 03mr2010 [6735-36]

 

E 16322  Hieratic-Demotic fragmentary scroll

  Archive prints, box 242 (negs 80159-80166; plates A-H)

numerous small fragments [7417-23]

  RAK digital images 10 & 17mr2010 [*7341-54, 7413-23; access restricted]

E 16323   Hieratic-Demotic fragments (14 + 6) possibly from two or more documents

  RAK digital images 10mr2010 [7337-38; access restricted]

E 16340   papyrus,  HIERATIC/DEMOTIC  MISS [25.3 x 6.5 cm]

 

E 16690.06 Hieratic fragment with red ink RAK digital image (and JW photo), 2009

E 16690.07 similar Hieratic fragment RAK digital image (and JW photo), 2009 [4027]

E 16698 four + 1 HIERATIC pieces, four + 2 blank pieces

  RAK digital images 07ap2010 [**7676-77; access restricted]

E 16699 [needs delayering] large blank piece with 10 similar scraps;

about 12 + 11 small HIERATIC (not clear how many different documents)

  RAK digital images 07ap2010 [*7680] [link]

 

E 16724 (four unconnected fragments of the same document)

see I.E.S.Edwards, Oracular Amuletic Decrees, Hierat. Pap. BM, 4th Series (London 1960) 111-113 and plate 44 [get plate].

  Archive print, box 242 (neg 55566)

E 16724A HIERATIC document (Ptolemaic amulet)

    RAK digital images 07ap2010 [*7657-58]

E 16724B HIERATIC document (Ptolemaic amulet)

   RAK digital images 07ap2010 [*7657-58]

E 16724C HIERATIC document (Ptolemaic amulet)

    RAK digital images 07ap2010 [*7657-58]

E 16724D HIERATIC document (Ptolemaic amulet)

    [get? not found when other items were imaged?]

E 16725 small HIERATIC document

    RAK digital images 07ap2010 [*7663-64; access restricted]

E 16726 five pieces of one or two HIERATIC documents

    RAK digital images 07ap2010 [*7663-64; access restricted]

E 16727 three + 3 pieces of a HIERATIC document (inscribed both sides)

    RAK digital images 07ap2010 [*7661-62; access restricted]

 

E 17319 large HIERATIC papyrus roll mounted on fabric, Book of the Dead, late Saitic period (34 x 336 cm), belonging to daughter of Horus

   Jean Walker b&w photos 1999 [access restricted] [get color images]

    RAK digital images 12&19my2010 [8019-22; 8037-52]

folder 25? [found in drawer; contains one hieratic fragment]

  Hieratic (2) [access restricted]

    box D folder 25 piece ]7741-42]

    seven+ pieces of a roll [7706-20]

unidentified Hieratic "522"

  RAK digital image of label 03mr2010

unidentified Hieratic, 3 frgs (4558-59; restricted access)

 

//end; updated 10au2010//