Papyrus Mayer B is part of a confession of robberies in the tomb of Ramesses VI (KV9) in the late Ramesside era, probably during year 8 or 9 of Ramesses X (Khepermaatre) about 1118 BC. It consists of fourteen horizontal lines but is unfortunately no more than a fragment. Its beginning and end are both incomplete, and it doubtless formed part of a long document of which no other portion has survived.
The papyrus was unrolled and mounted on linen by Constantine Simonides (1820-1867) for Joseph Mayer who acquired the papyrus in 1855 from Revd. Henry Stobart.
The black jackal Anubis reclines on a shrine, a sash tied around his neck and a golden flail supported by his hind leg, waiting to greet Nefertari, detail of a wall painting from the Tomb of Queen Nefertari (QV66).
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1292-1189 BC. Valley of the Queens, West Thebes.
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