Tentshedkhonsu papyrus – Florence

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Ranke I, pg. 370, 14, Ranke II, pg. 396
Also known as TashedKhonsou, Tentshedkhonsoe, Tjentsjedkhonsu, Shedsukhonsu, Sjedsukonsu, Chedsoukhonsou, Taschedchons, Tanetshedkhonsu
Provenance ex Nizolli (acquired in 1824), incorrecly linked to the Bab el Gasus discovery, see below
Middle or late 21st Dynasty

Mistress of the house, Chantress of Amun-Ra, the king of the gods

In Burial Assemblages of Dynasty 21–25: Chronology (2009) by David Aston and in The Tomb of the Priests of Amun: Shabtis (2022) by Marianna Zarli, this papyrus is incorrectly associated with the Bab el-Gasus find. It was purchased in Egypt by Giuseppe Nizzoli and sold in Italy in 1824, sixty-seven years before the official discovery of the cache

Giuseppe Nizzoli (1792–1858) was an Italian chancellor at the Austrian consulate in Egypt and a major, though often overlooked, figure in the history of nineteenth-century Egyptology and the antiquities trade. Together with his wife, Amalia Sola Nizzoli, he played a crucial role in assembling and selling important collections of Egyptian artefacts to European museums

The “Nizzoli Collection” primarily refers to a core group of more than 1,400 Egyptian objects that Nizzoli gathered in Egypt between 1817 and 1828. Consisting of archaeological finds, bronzes, and papyri, this collection is of great importance for the history of Egyptology, was studied by Champollion, and is today dispersed among several museums, including the Museo Egizio in Turin

The compilation of the papyrus is of low resolution, for better details see Piankoff and Rambova 1957, pg. 130-132, pap.14

For description, see here

Amduat papyrus for Tentshedkhonsu

Length 125 cm, height 24 cm
Ref. No. 3663 – 0900514165, Museo Egizio di Firenze, A.III.1b Niwinski
Photos Museo Egizio di Firenze
Panorama view VB 2026-02