Mummified person

Description

Mummified girl aged five to seven years, depicted as an adult, with wrappings arranged in lozenges and a gilded plaster mask fitted over the face, excavated by Petrie: Ancient Egyptian, Hawara, Middle Egypt, Roman Period, c. AD 100-140

Museum reference

A.1911.210.3

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Mummified person

Production information

Unknown
Hawara, Middle Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

Roman Period

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Organic, Linen, Resin, Plaster, Gold

Collection place(s)

Hawara, Middle Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

British School of Archaeology in Egypt
Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Professor Sir, 1853 - 1942

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Egyptian Mummies: Immortality in the Land of the Pharaohs (06 Oct 2007 - 24 Mar 2008)
  Landesmuseum Württenberg

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

PETRIE, W M F, 1911 Roman Portraits and Memphis (IV) (London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt) 20, pl. XIV

GRIMM, G 1974. Die römische Mumienmasken aus Ägypten (Wiesbaden: Frank Steiner) 22, 48-49, 117, 127[B3], pl. 11[4]

WALKER S & M BIERBRIER 1997. Ancient Faces. Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt (London: British Museum Press) 82-84[60]

PARLASCA, K 1966. Mumienporträts und verwandte Denkmäler (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz) Mp. 109, 217[12], 252

DASEN, V 2008. “La petite fille el le médecin. À propos d’une étiquette de momie d’Égypte romaine”, in Boudon-Millot et al (eds.) 39-46

Manley, B and Dodson, A., (2010) Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd.), Cat.60, p.138-9

On display

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