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Description: | Wrapped mummy of a young girl. Wrapped in linen and fitted with a linen-and-plaster mummy mask. The front of the mask is gilded and shows the deceased girl with a Roman hairstyle, which dates the mask to the mid-1st century AD. The eyes are inlaid, and the mask depicts contemporary dress, jewellery inlaid with glasss, and snake-shaped bracelets. The back of the mask is painted with a protective winged vulture.
The lower part of the body is wrapped in a linen shroud, painted with three registers of funerary scenes on a pink background. A footcase of painted linen and plaster (cartonnage) fits over the wrapped feet of the mummy.
The mummy was CT-scanned at Manchester Children's Hospital on 30/4/13.
Material: Human Remains
Material: Plaster
Material: Linen | Source: | Manchester Museum | Identifier: | mm.emu.ecatalogue.humanities.97910 | Go to resource |
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