Mummy in mummiform coffin
Artist:
Egypt
Date: 6th c. BCE or later
Medium: mummified body, wood, gesso, paint, linen.
Classification: Visual Works
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object number: 1910.3.119
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 mask
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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