Artist Egyptian
Title
  • The Book of the Dead of Nes-Min
Date between 4th and 3rd century BCE
Medium Ink on papyrus
Dimensions various dimensions
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Shelden III Fund, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, and Hill Memorial Fund
Accession Number V2014.10
Department Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
Not On View
Inscriptions various inscriptions throughout the volume
1988-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Limme, Luc. "Un `Prince Ramesside' Fantôme.” In Aegyptus Museis Rediviva: Miscellanea In Honorem Hermanni De Meulenaere. Bruxelles, 1993, p. 114, note 35, Thebes, doc. 7-10. [where Nesmin is identified as a "prophet of Neferhotep"]