Mummified person

Description

Mummified male child named Penhōrpabik, aged 3 years and 3 months, wrapped in fairly coarse linen with simple cross-over outer bands: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, late Roman Period, c.175-200 AD

Museum reference

A.1956.357 B

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Mummified person

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

Roman Period

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Collection place(s)

Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Previous owner: Rhind, Alexander Henry, 1833 - 1863

Exhibitions

• Heaven and Hell and other worlds of the dead (01 Jul 2000 - 01 Feb 2001)
  Royal Museum of Scotland

References

Dawson 1927: DAWSON, W R 1927. “On Two Egyptian Mummies Preserved in the Museums of Edinburgh”, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 1926-1927: pp. 290-96

Buckley, S. A. and Evershed, R. P. 2001. 'Organic Chemistry of Embalming Agents in Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman Mummies' in Nature 413, p. 837

Riggs, C and Depauw, M. 2002. '«Soternalia» from Deir el-Bahri, including Two Coffin Lids with Demotic Inscriptions' in Revue d'Égyptologie 53, p. 89

Dasen, V. 2005. Jumeaux, Jumelles dans l’antiquité Grecque et Romaine, p. 52−3