mummy-case; cartonnage

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Object Type: mummy-case; cartonnage
Museum number: EA75194
Description: A cartonnage mummy-case, covered with images of funerary deities.
Cultures/periods
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Sheikh Abd el-Qurna (Thebes)
Materials: linen; plaster
Curator's comments: Acquired with the coffin 75193 with which it had been associated in a previous collection. This cartonnage is of an earlier period than that coffin and was made for a different person. It has been suggested that the name of the occupant was Nebset, but the interpretation of the relevant inscription is uncertain. The mummy which the case contained was removed and unwrapped in 1875, and was subsequently presented to the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, where it was destroyed by an air-raid in 1941.
Location: Not on display
Condition: poor
Acquisition name
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Previous owner
Acquisition date: 2000
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA75194
Registration number: 2000,0724.2
Conservation

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