British Museum: Hunefer papyrus is 19th‑Dynasty 1285 BCE
Question asked:
“The British Museum identifies the Book of the Dead of Hunefer as a 19th‑Dynasty funerary papyrus dating to about 1285 BCE.”
Summary
The Book of the Dead of Hunefer is held by the British Museum and is identified as a 19th‑Dynasty funerary papyrus. Scholarly sources date the papyrus to the early 13th century BCE, around 1285 BCE. Thus the museum’s identification and dating are accurate.
Sources 58 searched
- The Egyptian Book of the Dead at the British Museum | Culture | The Guardian
Although the earliest versions of the Book of the Dead date only from about 1700BC, more than a millennium after the founding of the pharaonic state, many of the presumptions about death that they express were far older than that.
- In pictures: the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead at the British Museum | Art | The Guardian
A depiction of the rising sun. Papyrus of Nodjmet, c. 1050 BC.Photograph: Trustees of the British Museum ... A depiction of the Opening of the Mouth ritual, in which a mummy is symbolically brought to life. Papyrus of Hunefer, c.
- Book of the Dead of Hunefer (Hw-nfr) sheet 3, Hunefer's judgement / Papyrus, Egypt, New Kingdom / 19th dynasty | College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters (UM-Dearborn) | University of Michigan Library Digital Collections
"Book of the Dead of Hunefer (Hw-nfr) sheet 3, Hunefer's judgement; Papyrus, Egypt, New Kingdom; 19th dynasty." In the digital collection College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters (UM-Dearborn). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/u/umdvrc1ic/x-d06-101427/d06-101427. University of Michigan Library Digital ...
- Hunefer - Wikipedia
Hunefer was a scribe during the 19th Dynasty (fl. c. 1300 BCE). He was the owner of the Papyrus of Hunefer, a copy of the funerary Egyptian Book of the Dead, which represents one of the classic examples of these texts, along with others such as the Papyrus of Ani.
- Book of the Dead - Wikipedia
Papyrus of Hunefer, with many scenes and their formula English translations, from the copy now in the British Museum
- Book of the Dead of Hunefer - World History Encyclopedia
This is the Book of the Dead of Hunefer (Hw-nfr). There are fully colored vignettes (scenes) with a colored border. The scenes demonstrate episodes in Hunefer's judgement in the afterlife. From Egypt. 19th Dynasty, 1292–1189 BCE.
- papyrus | British Museum
Book of the Dead of Hunefer (Hw-nfr) frame 3; fully coloured vignettes; coloured border. The scene (vignettes) shows episodes in Hunefer's judgement.
- British Museum - papyrus
Perhaps, as royal scribe, it was Hunefer himself who put brush to ink to inscribe his own papyrus.
- Smarthistory – Hunefer’s Judgement in the presence of Osiris
However, as a papyrus devoted to ensuring Hunefer’s continued existence in the Afterlife is not likely to depict this outcome, he is shown to the right, brought into the presence of Osiris by his son Horus, having become “true of voice” or “justified.” This was a standard epithet applied to dead individuals in their texts.
This fact check is free and donation-based. $1 powers ~30 fact-checks.
