Mummified person

Description

Mummified woman, wrapped in linen bandages coated with a thick layer of black resin embedded with stone, opaque glass and gilded amulets: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, excavated by A.H. Rhind in the tomb of Montsuef, Early Roman Period, c. 20 BC - 10 AD

Museum reference

A.1956.352

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Mummified person

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

Roman Period

Style / Culture

Roman Period, Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Organic, Linen, Resin, Glass, Gilt, Stone

Collection place(s)

Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Excavator: Rhind, Alexander Henry, 1833 - 1863

Exhibitions

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

• The Tomb

• Fascinating Mummies (11 Feb 2012 - 27 May 2012)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Rhind, A.H. (1862) Thebes, Its Tombs and their Tenants, pp. 110-1, pl. 7.

Buckley, S.A. and Evershed, R.P. (2001) 'Organic chemistry of embalming agents in Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman mummies', Nature, 413, pp.837-841

National Museums Scotland (2012) Fascinating Mummies: Highlights of the Exhibition, pp. 38-9.

(2012-05-09) 'Finer Detail of 2000 Year Old Mummy Revealed by 3D Holography', Photonics Online Imaging' www.photonicsonline.com/doc.mvc/finer-detail-of-year-old-mummy-revealed-by-holography-imaging-0001

Maitland, M (2017) The Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Burial (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd), 63, 76-77.

Schmidt, V (2022 [2019]), Sarcophagi, Mummy Coffins, and Mummy Cases in Ancient Egypt: A Typological Atlas, transl. Jonker, Z (Albany, NY: Ancient Egyptian Heritage & Archaeology Fund), no. 1315, p. 228 [222].

On display

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