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coffin
;
human mummy
;
mummy-wrapping
Object Type
coffin
human mummy
mummy-wrapping
Museum number
EA29581
Description
Mummy and coffin of a middle-aged man. He came in a wooden anthropoid inner-coffin with a gilded face and a hieroglyphic inscription. Skull - Almost edentulous. No fractures. Thorax and Abdomen - There is a large cylindrical object placed almost vertically on the right side of the abdomen. A dense homogeneous mass (solidified resin) overlies the upper end of it. The thorax and abdomen appear to be otherwise empty. A long plug of linen has been placed in the flank-incision. Almost certainly circumcised. Arms - Flexed at the elbows, the forearms crossed over the breast with hands on the shoulders. Legs - No fractures, dislocations, or lines of arrested growth.
Cultures/periods
Ptolemaic
(early)
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Akhmim
Materials
wood
gold
human tissue
resin
Technique
gilded
painted
Dimensions
Length:
171 centimetres
(coffin)
Length:
161 centimetres
(mummy)
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject
private
funerary
Curator's comments
Bibliography: B. Porter & R. Moss, 'Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings' V (Oxford: Clarendon Press), p.24.
Bibliographic references
Dawson & Gray 1968 / Catalogue of Egyptian Antqiuities in the British Museum: Mummies and Human Remains
(39)
Fletcher, Antoine and Hill 2014 / Regarding the Dead: Human Remains in the British Museum
(p.106, p.110, table 1)
Location
Not on display
Condition
fair
Associated names
Named in inscription:
Nesmin
Named in inscription:
Imhotep
(parent)
Named in inscription:
Nestefnut
(parent)
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
R J Moss & Co
Acquisition date
1898
Department
Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number
EA29581
Registration number
1898,0315.468