An Egyptian Papyrus Fragment from the Book of the Dead, Late - Early Ptolemaic Period, ca. 350 - 300 BCE Holy Land with green and black pigment

with green and black pigment

and childbirth

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An Egyptian Papyrus Fragment from the Book of the Dead, Late - Early Ptolemaic Period, ca. 350 - 300 BCE Holy Land with green and black pigmentThis papyrus fragment preserves a portion of a funerary composition from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, written in Hieratic. The text is arranged in horizontal lines, executed in a confident black ink hand, with occasional rubrication in red, consistent with Late Period and early Ptolemaic manuscript practice. The surviving passage corresponds to a variant of Chapter 26, relating to the control and preservation of the heart in the afterlife. The