Papyrus
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkley
17.3cm
papyrus
Medical papyrus collecting prescriptions and incantations probably compiled from different sources for the use of local physicians. The text was written with two inks: red was used for titles and black for ingredients.
Acquired by George A. Reisner from a local resident in 1901.
Museum object
Bibliography:
- Keller, Cathleen A., Roehrig, Catharine H., Dreyfus, Renée, Hatshepsut. From Queen to Pharaoh, New Haven, London 2005, 265, no. 196
- Reisner, George A., The Hearst Magical Papyrus, University of California Publications, Egyptian Archaeology 1, Leipzig 1905
- Fredrickson, Vera-Mae, Elsasser, Albert B., Ancient Egypt, Berkley, Los Angeles 1966, 66
- Freed, Rita E., Doll, Susan K., Brovarski, Edward, Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom, 1558-1085 B.C., Boston 1982, 295, no. 406
- Leake, Chauncey D., The Old Egyptian Medical Papyri, Lawrence, Kans. 1952, 47-83