human mummy;
mummy-wrapping;
finger-ring;
scarab
- Museum number
- EA6731
- Description
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Left hand from an adult human mummy, fingers extended, wrapped in linen bandages, impregnated with bitumen, the ends of the fingers are exposed, nails preserved, finger-ring on the third finger, consisting of a gold funda and blue-green glazed steatite scarab.
- Dimensions
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Length: 16.70 centimetres (max)
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- poor (fingers damaged)
- Acquisition date
- 1859
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA6731
- Registration number
- 1859,0815.1
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.6731.a (Birch Slip Number)