The Met bulletin lists acquisition of the JS Papyri in 1947.
- Type
- Periodical
- Source
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- Direct
- Reference
“Review of the Year 1947,” Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 7, no. 1 (1948): 17.
- Scribe/Publisher
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
The major accession of the DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN ART was the purchase early in the year of an almost life-sized limestone statuette of a kneeling captive of the VI Dynasty. . . . Other purchases included . . . papyrus fragments of hieratic Books of the Dead, once the property of the Mormon leader Joseph Smith.
- Source Link
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/3258054?refreqid=excelsior%3A9c583e20b8058d4fa9dd2d40d8453f6f
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