Mummy in mummiform coffin
Artist
Egypt
Date6th c. BCE or later
Mediummummified body, wood, gesso, paint, linen.
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number1910.3.119
DescriptionMummy and inner case of sycamore wood from tomb in Flascht, Egypt; Saitic Period; wood coffin with painted decoration over plaster layer of various gods including sons Horus, Anubis, the goddess Mut and badly written (possible prayer from Book of the Dead) columns of hieroglyphs; black, green, red and white varnished/shellacked; mummy wrapped in linen strips with gilt cartonnage face maskOn View
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Egypt
Egypt
Egypt
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Egypt
1550-1306 BC