Mummified person

Description

Mummified remains of an adult man wrapped in linen, partially disarticulated, with the head covered with a painted cartonnage mask: Ancient Egyptian, probably from Akhmim, Late Period, 30th Dynasty, c. 380 - 342 BC

Museum reference

A.1912.186 B

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Mummified person

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

380 - 342 BC

Style / Culture

30th Dynasty, Late Dynastic Period, Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Organic, Linen, Cartonnage

Collection place(s)

Akhmim, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

References

Howell G. M. Edwards, Susana E. Jorge Villar, Katherine A. Eremin, (2004) 'Raman spectroscopic analysis of pigments from dynastic Egyptian funerary artefacts', Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 35/8‐9 (Raman spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology, August ‐ September 2004), 786-795.