Besides keeping all kinds of very diversified material illustrating the art of printing, the Gutenberg-Museum at Mainz also exhibits a small collection of Ancient Egyptian artefacts. In its own room of the department of the history of writing six original objects are presented and, in addition, four replicas. The most impressive papyrus is a fragment of the Book of the Dead from the 4th/3rd century B.C. containing spell 17. Up to now, other fragments of the papyrus are known from the John Ryland University Library Manchester, the Royal Ontario Museum Toronto and the Museo Episcopal de Vic. Furthermore, a much smaller papyrus fragment from a different owner lists spell 107 of the Book of the Dead and dates to Ptolemaic times. A quite rare hypocephalos preserved in two fragments can only be compared with the example of Wesir-wer in Paris (Louvre N3182) and is accordingly datable to the 3rd/2nd century B.C. The small figurine of the female owner Tagat made of clay and painted in various colours, can bee added to the group of previously unknown shabti owners. Moreover, it seems that her personal name is not yet recorded and can probably be translated as «The Songstress». Datable to the 19th/20th dynasty the place of provenance might be Deir el-Medineh. The conserved foot part of an anthropoid coffin (Late Period) of a woman named Taheteret depicts a quite typical decoration: two jackals of Anubis. Last but not least, an important limestone block of a Ptolemaic king, perhaps Ptolemaios IV, has been decorated with a twA-p.t scene and consequently most probably originates from an up to now unknown pedestal.