mummy-case;
cartonnage
- Museum number
- EA48001
- Description
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Gilded cartonnage mummy-case of Henutmehyt in two sections; leg-section is open-work.
- Dimensions
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Height: 173 centimetres (in total)
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Width: 38 centimetres (in total)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Taylor in Davies, Colour and Painting, London 2001, p. 170, col. pl. 50 [3], col. pl. 51 [1];
N. Strudwick, Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt, London 2006, pp. 214-6.
J.H. Taylor & D. Antoine, Ancient lives, new discoveries, London 2014, p. 61.
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Published: J. H. Taylor, 'The Burial Assemblage of Henutmehyt: Inventory, Date and Provenance' in W. V. Davies (ed), Studies in Egyptian Antiquities: A Tribute to T. G. H. James (BM Occasional Paper 123, 1999), 59-72.
- Location
- On display (G63/dc9)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1990 24 Mar-10 Jun, Australia, Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, Civilization: Ancient Treasures from the British Museum, cat. no.37
1990 28 Jun-23 Sep, Australia, Melbourne, Museum of Victoria, Civilization: Ancient Treasures from the British Museum, cat. no.37
2010 4th Nov-2011 6th March, Round Reading Room BM, Book of the Dead
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1907
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA48001
- Registration number
- 1907,1212.1
