domingo, 30 de octubre de 2016

CHILD MUMMY

CHILD MUMMY
ROMAN PERIOD
Gray, P. H. K., Radiological Aspects of the Mummies of Ancient Egyptians, in: Oudheidkundige Mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden (OMRO) 47, 26, nr. 26, pl. XXXI.1.
Raven, M. J., De Dodencultus van het Oude Egypte, Amsterdam 1992, 13, afb. 7.
Raven, M. J., Mummies onder het mes, Amsterdam 1993, afb. 77.
Inventory number AMM 27c
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FEMALE MUMMY

FEMALE MUMMY
Mummy of a grown up woman of around 25 years old, having a weak constitution. She lived during the Third Intermediate Period, between dynasties XXIII and XXVI. She is completely bandaged, without showing any trace of her anatomy. The body has been cut in two by her knees. The x ray also shows a ring near the 20th vertebra, introduced inside the body together with the filling material.
Inventory number 15210
LATE PERIOD: 26TH DYNASTY > 23RD
MUSEO ARQUEOLÓGICO NACIONAL
PEREZ - DIE, Mª C., Egipto. Guía didáctica del Museo Arqueológico Nacional. I1985, P. 25.
PEREZ - DIE, Mª C., Egipto y Próximo Oriente. Guía general del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, 1996, P. 98.
LLAGOSTERA CUENCA, E., Estudio radiológico de las momias egipcias del Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Madrid, Monografías Arqueológicas, 5, 1978, Pp. 30 - 39.
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sábado, 29 de octubre de 2016

head

head
HUMAN MUMMY
Inventory number 8643
MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE/MUSEO EGIZIO
Acquistato da Bauer nel 1893.
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Dama de Kemet







Dama de Kemet

Museu egipci Barcelona

HUMAN MUMMY

HUMAN MUMMY
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
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MUSEU NACIONAL DE ARQUEOLOGIA
Antiguidades Egípcias I, Lisboa, 1993
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CROCODILE MUMMY

CROCODILE MUMMY
KOM OMBO/OMBOS
GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
MUSEU NACIONAL DE ARQUEOLOGIA
Antiguidades Egípcias I, Lisboa, 1993
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viernes, 28 de octubre de 2016

Regarding the Death: Human remains in the British Museum

Regarding the Death:
Human remains in the British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/PDF/Regarding-the-Dead_02102015.pdf

Mummy with an Inserted Panel Portrait of a Youth




Mummy with an Inserted Panel Portrait of a Youth

Period: Roman Period
Date: A.D. 80–100
Geography: From Egypt, Fayum, Hawara, BSAE excavations 1910-1911
Medium: Encaustic on limewood, human remains, linen, mummification material
Dimensions: mummy: l. 169 cm (66 9/16 in); w. 45 cm (17 11/16 in)
panel as exposed: l. 38.1 cm (15 in); w. 18 cm (7 1/16 in)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1911
Accession Number: 11.139

Description

This mummy retains the panel inserted over the face. The portrait depicts a youth with large deep-set eyes and a down-turned mouth. His downy moustache indicates that he is no older than his early twenties. A number of mummy portraits represent youths with their first facial hair, a feature that had particular connotations in the Greek-educated society of Roman Egypt. The incipient moustache was both an indicator of the young man's entrance into important social groups and a signal that he was at the prime of sexual attractiveness and vigor.

In this era mummies might be kept above ground for periods of some months up to several years before final burial. Most probably they were deposited in chapels in cemeteries, where they were visited by relatives for ritual meals.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/11.139/

jueves, 27 de octubre de 2016

head of an Egyptian dog

Origin: Egypt,
Material: Mummy
Physical: 17cm. (6.6 in.) - 325 g. (11.5 oz.)
Catalog: APR.LL.00982
This is the mummified head of an Egyptian dog, which may have been a household pet. The linen wrappings are intact, carefully draped and stitched to suggest the eyes and mouth of the animal. The iris of the eye is marked with black pigment. Similar embalming techniques can be seen on a Roman Era dog mummy at the British Museum (EA 6743).
The bitumen sealing the neck indicates that this is not a fragment from a whole dog mummy, but rather that the owner only had the head mummified.
Date undetermined. Formerly part of the collection of Viscountess Dalton.
http://www.virtual-egyptian-museum.org/Collection/FullVisit/Collection.FullVisit-JFR.html?../Content/WOD.XL.00141.html&0

HUMAN MUMMY

HUMAN MUMMY
A small body that is well-wrapped, there are larger sheets of linen with smaller bandages wrapped around. It has been disturbed in the area around the neck and lower abdomen. The head is loose.
Inventory number 1978.291.428
LIVERPOOL MUSEUM
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CAT MUMMY

CAT MUMMY
The mummy of a cat wrapped in linen of two different colours in an elaborate, layered pattern. The head has been modelled and painted to resemble the animal. Some cats were mummified in a crouched position and placed in a cat-shaped coffin. The cat cult in honour to the goddess Bastet was particularly popular in the Late Period and the 1st century BC Greek historian, Diodorus Siculus, reported that he saw a Roman lynched in Egypt for accidentally killing a cat.
LATE PERIOD
Loaned to the Museum by the Royal Institution, Colquitt Street, Liverpool.
Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley, "Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in the Liverpool Museum", 1995, 70; pl. 107.
LIVERPOOL MUSEUM
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MALE MUMMY




MALE MUMMY
The well-preserved adult male mummy of Nesmin, son of Ankh-hap, from Akhmim. The outer wrappings of the mummy are covered in a layer of blackened resin, damaged at the feet, the mummy itself is very solid and heavy. Beautifully coloured panels of cartonnage lie across the length of the body, depicting winged goddesses, lotus flowers, vignettes and rosette patterns (see images).The face is covered with a finely worked gilded mask and wig.
The body cavities appear to be empty except for a layer of resin and an opaque, cylindrical mass in the left hypochondrium. A second opaque mass seems to be a linen swab impregnated with resin which covers the embalming incision. The arms are folded on the breast, left fingers clenched, right extended.
AKHMIM
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
Originally part of the private collection belonging to the author H. Rider Haggard, presented to the Castle Museum, Norwich, in 1926 by his brother, Colonel Andrew Haggard. This was then part of the collection purchased in 1956 by the City of Liverpool Museum.
The mummy of Ankh-Hap, father of Nesmin, is at the Roemer- und Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim.
A publication is currently in preparation by Denise Parkinson, on the life of H. Rider Haggard, his travels and subsequent collections.
Preservation:
In particularly good condition.
LIVERPOOL MUSEUM
http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=3088

miércoles, 26 de octubre de 2016

IBIS MUMMY

IBIS MUMMY
A crude pottery vessel of coarse red-ware containing the mummified body of an ibis. The conical lid has the remains of a plaster sealing.
Inventory number 56.22.145
LATE- GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD ?
LIVERPOOL MUSEUM
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RAM MUMMY


RAM MUMMY
The model mummy of a ram, bound in strips of linen in a pattern and possibly containing some parts of a real ram.
The ram was worshipped as a symbol of fertility, the two main deities who took this form were the gods Khnum and Banebdjed. Khnum was the local deity of Esna and Elephantine, the most important of the ram deities, he was regarded as the creator of humankind and was depicted with long wavy horns. The Delta town of Mendes was the cult centre for the worship of Banebdjed. Sacred cemeteries containing the mummified remains of these animals have been found at Mendes, Saqqara, Esna, Herakleopolis Magna and Elephantine.
GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD ?
Part of the collection of Joseph Mayer, given to the museum in 1867. See for more information object M13519, Object's History.
LIVERPOOL MUSEUM
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FEMALE MUMMY

FEMALE MUMMY
The mummy of an elderly female, whose embalmment technique suggests a date of the Late Period. There is some packing and three cylindrical objects (overlying each other) are evident in the upper thorax.
The outer wrappings are still in place but are somewhat discoloured.
LATE PERIOD
International inventory number
03/061/3086
LIVERPOOL MUSEUM
P.H.K. Gray and Dorothy Slow; "Egyptian Mummies in the City of Liverpool Museums", 1968.
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Human mummy




Human mummy
The mummy is completely enveloped in cloth on which a pattern of pearls has been sewn in the form of lozanges. Over the head a relatively flat mask has been placed on which a face, a wig and a part of a necklace have been painted. The chest is covered by a large pectoral with clasps in the form of a falcon's head. The lower part of the body is adorned by the image of a winged <A HREF="God">goddess</A> which represents Nephthys. The motif of the fourth scene is composed of a djed-pillar which is adored by Isis and Nephthys and the four Sons of Horus. The feet are concealed in a sheath on which the god Anubis, perched on his shrine, has been drawn. The bottom presents two simple soles.
ABYDOS
GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
M.-P. Vanlathem, Oudegyptische lijkkisten en mummies - Cercueils et momies de l'Égypte ancienne, Bruxelles 1983, 24-25
F. Lefebvre et B. Van Rinsveld, L'Égypte. Des Pharaons aux Coptes, Bruxelles 1990, 243, 250
M. Raven, Mummies onder het mes, Amsterdam 1993, 112
KMKG - MRAH
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martes, 25 de octubre de 2016

Antinoe



Ancient Egyptian mummy with painted shroud, commonly called the "dame d'Antinoë" (lady of Antinoe), in the Musée des beaux-arts in Rennes, in France. She was discovered in the town of Antinoopolis (also called Antinoe) in 1909 and was restored in 2008.

lunes, 24 de octubre de 2016

Iufenamun the mummy priest







Iufenamun the mummy priest
Iufenamun fact file
Date
Mid-late 10th century BC, Third Intermediate period, Early 22nd Dynasty
Coffin made from
Yellow painted wood
Coffin dimensions
Length 180cm, depth 31cm
Coffin lid
The coffin comes with a lid which dates from the same period, but which belongs not to Iufenamun but to a priestess of Amun called Tjentwerethequa, now thought to be Iufenamun’s grandmother.
Museum reference
A.1907.569
On display
Discoveries, Level 1, National Museum of Scotland
Did you know?
The royal pharaohs reburied by Iufenamun were rediscovered in 1881. The story is told in Egyptian director Shadi Abdel Salam’s 1969 film Al-Mumiyaor The Night of the Counting Years.
Who was Iufenamun?
The prestigious titles, along with the high quality of the embalming and coffin base, imply that Iufenamun was a man of considerable importance. But who was he?
His titles suggest that he was a senior priest of Amun-Ra (Iufenamun means “he belongs to Amun”), and that he had many wide-ranging duties, including responsibility for the necropolis, or burial ground.
This means that this mummy could well be Iufenamun, son of Nesypaqashuty. This is an exciting discovery, as this Iufenamun was a significant figure in Egyptian history.
http://www.nms.ac.uk/explore/stories/world-cultures/ancient-egyptian-collection/ancient-egyptian-collection/iufenamun-the-mummy-priest/

Mummy with an Inserted Panel Portrait of a Youth

Mummy with an Inserted Panel Portrait of a Youth
Period:Roman PeriodDate:A.D. 80–100Geography:From Egypt, Fayum, Hawara, BSAE excavations 1910-1911Medium:Encaustic on limewood, human remains, linen, mummification materialDimensions:mummy: l. 169 cm (66 9/16 in); w. 45 cm (17 11/16 in) panel as exposed: l. 38.1 cm (15 in); w. 18 cm (7 1/16 in)Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1911
This mummy retains the panel inserted over the face. The portrait depicts a youth with large deep-set eyes and a down-turned mouth. His downy moustache indicates that he is no older than his early twenties. A number of mummy portraits represent youths with their first facial hair, a feature that had particular connotations in the Greek-educated society of Roman Egypt. The incipient moustache was both an indicator of the young man's entrance into important social groups and a signal that he was at the prime of sexual attractiveness and vigor.
In this era mummies might be kept above ground for periods of some months up to several years before final burial. Most probably they were deposited in chapels in cemeteries, where they were visited by relatives for ritual meals.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/547697
 
 
 

 

viernes, 21 de octubre de 2016

Thothirder





Thothirder

dynasty XXVI

Brooklyn Museum








The Egyptian word for mummy, sah, means “nobility” or “dignity” and denotes a divine and eternal manifestation of the deceased. According to ancient belief, the mummified body has been transformed into a home for the soul. After death, the mummy reunites with the ba-soul, which travels outside the tomb and serves the needs of the ka-soul (which receives food offerings) and the akh-soul (which represents all the parts integrated and acting together as a capable being in the afterlife).
The mummy shown here has undergone carbon-14 dating, a scientific method used to determine the date of archaeological samples. The results indicate that Thothirdes died between 768 and 545 B.C.E., supporting the Twenty-sixth Dynasty date suggested by the style of his coffin.

 https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/mummy_chamber