Item 46-47 - Copies of letters about the gift of two papyrus fragments of the Egyptian Book of the Dead

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Add. MS a/199/46-47

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Copies of letters about the gift of two papyrus fragments of the Egyptian Book of the Dead

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  • [Apr. 1978] (Creation)

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3 sheets

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Fitzwilliam Museum
(Founded 1816)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Gift of the Fitzwilliam Museum, April 1978

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Copy of a letter dated 12 Nov. 1951 from H. M. Adams offering two papyrus fragments and a squeeze in white plaster of an Assyrian cuneiform inscription of Sargon, taken from a stone in Colchester Castle. A copy of a letter from C. Winter of the Fitzwilliam dated 19 Nov. 1951 accepts the fragments but not the white plaster squeeze.

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