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Description: | Within this anthropoid (human in form) coffin is the wrapped female mummy of Bakht-hor-Nakht. The mummy comes from a tomb in Thebes in Upper Egypt and dates to the 21st-22nd Dynasties (about 1069-715 BC). It was purchased by the surgeon Thomas Coates at Gourna (a village on the west bank at Thebes) in 1820. The word 'mummy' is from the Persian-Arabic word 'moumiya' meaning 'bitumen' or 'pitch' and refers to the hard, black resinous coating found on Egyptian mummies. Once a body had been mummified it was placed in an anthropoid coffin like this example. These coffins were made from wood and were brightly decorated. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | archaeology egyptian | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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