Papyrus with the ritual for burying an Apis bull
late 2nd to 1st century BC
This papyrus contains precise instructions for priests about how to mummify an Apis bull who had become identified with Osiris. It was written in the Ptolemaic Period, but the ritual it describes was probably older. The texts are written in hieratic and demotic scripts on both sides of the papyrus.
This papyrus contains precise instructions for priests about how to mummify an Apis bull who had become identified with Osiris. It was written in the Ptolemaic Period, but the ritual it describes was probably older. The texts are written in hieratic and demotic scripts on both sides of the papyrus.
Time:
late 2nd to 1st century BC
Object Name
Papyrus
Culture
Ägyptisch
Location of discovery:
Fundort unbekannt
Material/technology:
Papyrus
Dimensions:
rechter Teil: B 96,5 cm, H 34 cm, G 24 g (5,7 kg im Rahmen)
linker Teil (aufkaschiert): B 94,3 cm, H 34 cm, G (mit Karton) 72g (5,8 kg im Rahmen)
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Ägyptisch - Orientalische Sammlung
Invs.
Ägyptische Sammlung, INV 3873
Provenance
1821, purchased by Ernst August Burghart in Egypt