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Description: | painting, An offering which the king gives to Re-Harakhty, chief of the gods [to] Atum, lord of the two lands, [and to] Osiris, Foremost of the Westerners, so that he may give offerings and provisions to the Osiris, the Lady of the House, Baket-en-her-Nakht, daughter of the God's father Nakhtefmut, justified.
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.
Material: human tissue
Material: wood, sycamore
Material: cartonnage | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.worldarchaeology.21859 | Go to resource |
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