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Funerary Papyrus of Tayuhenutmut

Ancient Egyptian · Third Intermediate Period, probably Dynasty 21 (about 1069-945 BCE)

Provenance

Ownership history

The Art Institute of Chicago, acquired in Egypt, 1894; price reimbursed by Henry H. Getty, Charles L. Hutchinson, Robert H. Fleming, and Norman W. Harris.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 154A, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
Art Institute of Chicago, Spiritual Expressions: Art for Private Contemplation and Public Celebration, November 22, 1995 - March 17, 1996.
Art Institute of Chicago, When the Greeks Ruled: Egypt After Alexander the Great, October 31, 2013 - July 27, 2014.
Art Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - Dec. 14, 2022.

Literature

Published references

Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), 10–11n1, 156-9 (ill.).
Thomas George Allen, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: Documents in the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Publications 82 (University of Chicago Press, 1960), 3, 12-13, 60-61, 67, 289, pls. I-IV (as OIM 18039).
Madeleine Bellion, Égypte ancienne. Catalogue des manuscrits hiéroglyphiques et hiératiques et des dessins, sur papyrus, cuir ou tissu, publiés ou signalés (Paris: M. Bellion, 1987), 129 (as T. Chicago OIM 18039).
Andrzej Niwiński, Studies on the Illustrated Theban Funerary Papyri of the 11th and 10th Centuries B.C. (Freiburg/Göttingen: Universitätsverlag/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1989), 304 (as Chicago 3).
Karl Jansen-Winkeln, “Text und Sprache in der 3. Zwischenzeit. Vorarbeiten zu einer spätmittelägyptischen Grammatik,” ÄUAT 26 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1994), 265 (as A/1.1.32, pChicago OIM 18039 = 94.180).
Ursula Verhoeven, Untersuchungen zur späthieratischen Buchschrift (Leuven, 2001), p [footnote 10], 66, 102-225, 250, 283, 294, 323 (as Chicago, OIM Papyrus 18039).
Giuseppina Lenzo Marchese, “Quelques manuscrits hiératiques du Livre des Morts de la Troisième Période intermédiaire du musée égyptien de Turin,” BIFAO 102 (2002), 270 (as P. Chicago OIM 18039).
Lisa Swart, “A Stylistic Comparison of Selected Visual Representations on Egyptian Funerary Papyri of the 21st Dynasty and Wooden Funerary Stelae of the 22nd Dynasty (c. 1069–715 B.C.E.)” (PhD diss., University of Stellenbosch, 2004), 114, 116, 196–7, 288, 300, pl. 142 (as pOIM 18039).
Emily Teeter and Janet H. Johnson, eds. The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt, exh. cat. (Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2009), 19, fig. 8.
Emily Cole, "Language and Script in the Book of the Dead," in Foy D. Scalf, Book of the Dead: Becoming God in Ancient Egypt (Chicago: Oriental Institue, 2017), 43, fig. 3.3.
Holger Kockelmann, "How a Book of the Dead Manuscript Was Produced," in Foy D. Scalf, Book of the Dead: Becoming God in Ancient Egypt (Chicago:Oriental Institue, 2017), 72, fig. 5.8.
Foy D. Scalf, "New papyri form Bab el Gasus? The prosopography and provenience of papyrus HM 84123," Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 125 (2025), 441-443.

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