FMNH 31326.nosub[1]

  • 31326 book of the dead
    Photographer: Ron Testa : Field Museum of Natural History - Photography Division
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Book of the Dead as illustrated in the mortuary papyrus of a lady named Isty. Excavated 1891.
  • 31326 book of the dead
    Photographer: Ron Testa : Field Museum of Natural History - Photography Division
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Book of the Dead as illustrated in the mortuary papyrus of a lady named Isty. Excavated 1891.
  • 31326 book of the dead
    Photographer: Ron Testa : Field Museum of Natural History - Photography Division
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Book of the Dead as illustrated in the mortuary papyrus of a lady named Isty. Excavated 1891.
  • 31326 book of the dead
    Photographer: Ron Testa : Field Museum of Natural History - Photography Division
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Detail of Book of the Dead as illustrated in the mortuary papyrus of a lady named Isty. Excavated 1891.
  • 31326 book of the dead
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Book of the Dead as illustrated in the Mortuary papyrus of a lady named Isty. Excavated 1891. Shown at Field Columbian Museum, framed and mounted on a wall.
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    Scanner: Mr. John M. Kelly : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: scan of catalog card
Catalog Number: 31326.nosub[1]
Description: Book of the Dead
Materials: papyrus
Cultural Attribution: Egyptian
Time Period: 21st Dynasty (Third Intermediate Period)
Accession Number: [211] E. E. Ayer (Gift)
Accession Year: 1895
City/Town: Deir el-Bahri, Thebes
Collector/Source: Edward E. Ayer : Field Columbian Museum [FCM], Edward E. Ayer : Field Columbian Museum [FCM]
EMu IRN: 1414187
GUID: b86ffff4-5fcb-40d0-88c1-5d294bcafb04

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