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Description: | This fragment of finely woven linen is decorated on the right with the scene described above in black ink or paint, the inscription placed below., MUMMY WRAPPING, portion of a; inscribed with part of the Ritual for the Dead, and a vignette of a person adoring before an altar with offerings. Sakkara. Egyptian.
[Annual Report 1878-79], Saqqara was the royal necropolis attached to Memphis and was in use from c. 3100 BC until c.340 BC. As Memphis grew so did the graveyard attached to it. A large part of it consists of the Old Kingdom pyramids but it is also made up of rock cut tombs and the Serapeum. It is at Saqqara that can be found the Step Pyramid of Djoser (2667 - 2648 BC) and the 'pyramid texts' in the pyramid of Unas (2375 - 2345 BC). During the 27th Dynasty (525 - 359 BC), the Persians cut burial chambers into the underlying rock and buried notable officials there.
Accession number: NCM 1879-72 | Subjects: | death EGYPTIAN | Temporal: | 30BC-640? | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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