Hieroglyphic 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.

 

29-086-491  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)

29-086-492 papyrus, about 10 + 5 pieces of HIEROGLYPHICS with drawings (poorly mounted), probably from a single document.

  DAN

    RAK digital images 19my2010 [*8072-73; access restricted]

29-086-493 papyrus, about 12 small HIEROGLYPHIC fragments

  DAN

  RAK digital images 12my2009 [4549-51; access restricted]

29-086-495 papyrus, about 50 + 50 small HIEROGLYPHIC pieces, with drawings and colors (one side only); probably from a single document

  DAN

  RAK digital images 05my2010 [*7936-39; access restricted]

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]

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

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]

29-209-053 A [no card?]

 Two similar Hieroglyphic pieces [access restricted]

29-209-053 B papyrus, MIXED ["Large group of varied small fragments; one being parchment with Coptic writing (also here). Lower right corner: one fragment with late Hieroglyphic text (access restricted); also one with Greek writing"]

  RAK digital images 12my2009 [no sign of larger group, or of Greek fragment]

 

38-028-049A papyrus, HIEROGLYPHIC Book of the Dead, with some red lettering and part of a drawing [identical to the next entry]

  RAK digital images 05my2010 [*7950-55]

38-028-"123" Hieroglyphic papyrus panel mounted on cardboard, text with red lettering and part of a picture on right, Book of the Dead? [see previous entry; check cards]

  RAK digital images 03mr2010 [6744; access restricted]

 

E 2775 Thebes [J.Wegner list 28je2004: .2, .A4, .A1-.A5, B-H; no descriptions]  HIEROGLYPHIC Book of the Dead (includes spell 17), Deir el-Medineh, c 1275/1260 bce; 36 cm high x 561 cm long. [See also E 03334.]

  For a black and white picture, see #37 (p.35) in The Egyptian Mummy: Secrets and Science, by MASCA and the Egyptian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum (1980). [neg # 23173?] ; another black and white picture of another section in JRA, Expedition 20 (1978) 34 (and another on the cover of that issue); mounted fragment "G" (see also 16532 and 16721 [lion depiction])

  Archive print, box 242

  RAK digital images 07ap2010 [**7659-72], 14ap2010 [*with 16720]

  [get images]

 

E 16223 not papyrus, images A-E (similar to 16222), some with Hieroglyphics

  RAK digital images of Jean Walker photos, 12my2009 [4597; access restricted]

E 16224 not papyrus, with Hieroglyphics (similar to 16223)

  RAK digital images of Jean Walker photos, 12my2009 [4598; access restricted]

E 16225 not papyrus, with Hieroglyphics (similar to 16223)

   RAK digital images of Jean Walker photos, 12my2009 [4598; access restricted]

E 16226 not papyrus, with Hieroglyphics (similar to 16223), shape of lower leg with foot

  RAK digital images of Jean Walker photos, 12my2009 [4598; access restricted]

E 16720 HIEROGLYPHIC Book of the Dead (New Kingdom)

  RAK digital images 07ap2010 [6773-74] [link?]

E 16721 HIEROGLYPHIC with depiction of a Lion [from 02775?]

    RAK digital images 07ap2010 [see 02775]

E 16722 HIEROGLYPHIC Book of the Dead

  [one side done? get images]

E 16723 HIEROGLYPHIC Book of the Dead illustration

  Archive print box 242 [fragments positioned]

  RAK digital image (with notes) 07ap2010 [*7665-68]

   [add similar image from archives, for better positioning; get]

L-0121-00095 A-C scroll  HIEROGLYPHIC with Seal attached and another seal loose in the envelope

    RAK digital images 12my2010 [7980-83; access restricted]

 

"box" (not yet further identified)

  RAK digital images 30je2009

panel 1 (restricted access) -- about 23 hieroglyphic fragments

panel 2 (restricted access) -- 22 hieroglyphic fragments (some with red ink & black ink columns; some very dark)

panel 3 (restricted access) miscellaneous small fragments

panel 4 -- miscellaneous small fragments, including patterns

panel 5.1 -- part of a pattern (including 4 joined fragments)

panel 5.2 -- 3 dark fragments with an image and pattern

panel 5.4 -- 10 fragments of a pattern (extracted from panel 4 and panel 5.3)

panel 5.5 -- about 12 pattern fragments (extracted from panel 4 and panel 5.3)

panel 5.6 -- fragments (with some joins) of a pattern using red lines (extracted from panel 5.3)

panel 6 -- remaining tiny fragments

unnumbered Hieroglyphic Book of Dead pieces 04mr2010 [6757-60]

//end; updated 10au2010//