Mummy of a man

Mummy of a man with amulets on a frame.
Roman period, after 30 bc.
Provenence unknows
EA 6714
This uninditified man was wraped in a painted  and inscribed shround and provided with small amulets of gilded wood, threaded on a frame.
British Museum

Mummy of Nesiamun

Mummy of Nesiamun

Period: Late Period

Dynasty: Dynasty 25–26

Date: ca. 712–525 B.C.

Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Priests' Cemetery, Tomb MMA 200s, MMA excavations, 1922–23

Medium: Human remains, linen

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1926

Accession Number: 26.3.12

 

 

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Shire stela of Amenhotep III and Tiye

 Shire stela of Amenhotep III and Tiye

From the house of Panehsy, Tell el-Amarna, Egypt
18th Dynasty, around 1340 BC

Probably from a domestic shrine

The reign of King Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) (1352-1336 BC) brought a very different style of art to Egypt for a few years. This is clearly associated with the religious changes which Akhenaten started, centred around the cult of the sun disc, known as the Aten. Features of this style include the use of more relaxed poses, accentuated stomachs and heads, and the motif of the sun disc with its life-giving rays.
In the new theology of Amarna, Akhenaten was the sole intermediary of the Aten, and thus all addresses to the deity had to go through him. Houses contained small shrines to the king for this purpose. The shrine in the house of Panehsy contained this plaque that unusually shows Akhenaten's father, Amenhotep III (1390-1352 BC) beneath the sun disc, in the style usually confined to Akhenaten and his officials, though Amenhotep III did identify himself with the sun in the later years of his life.
The name of the old god Amun was proscribed on monuments of the Amarna Period, and so Amenhotep III is identified here by his throne name Nebmaatre.
A.P. Kozloff and B.M. Bryan, Egypts dazzling sun: Amenhotep (Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992)
E.R. Russmann, Eternal Egypt: masterworks of (University of California Press, 2001)
R.E. Freed, Y.J. Markowitz and S.H. D'Auria (eds.), Pharaohs of the sun: Akhenaten (London, Thames & Hudson, 1999)
S. Quirke and A.J. Spencer, The British Museum book of anc (London, The British Museum Press, 1992)

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Jebel Moya: showing positions of skeleton

Jebel Moya: showing positions of skeleton. Natives sorting

Lower mandible from prehistoric cemetery at Gebel-Moya

Lower mandible from prehistoric cemetery at Gebel-Moya Collection:  SCM - Ethnography and Folk Medicine Object Name:  mandibles; human remains Materials:  bone; teeth Measurements:  length 127 mm; width 123 mm; height 55 mm
Description:  Lower mandible from prehistoric cemetery at Gebel-Moya, Sudan Object Number:  A682456

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cocodrile mummy

Photograph of crocodile mummies excavated at Tebtunis, 1900. Courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society

Takabuti

Esta foto de Belfast es cortesía de TripAdvisor

 Takabuti was the first Egyptian mummy to be brought to Ireland. She was brought to Belfast in 1834 by Mr Thomas Greg of Ballymenoch House, Holywood, Co. Down. Her hieroglyphs were deciphered by the Rev. Dr Edward Hincks of Killyleagh, Co. Down. The horizontal inscriptions gave the names and titles of Takabuti and her parents while the vertical inscriptions in compartments were the speeches of the gods depicted alongside. Dr Hincks was able to say that she was a woman named Takabuti and that she was a married lady between twenty and thirty years of age. She had been the mistress of a great house in Thebes, now called Luxor, which was an important town with a large cemetery where the mummy was buried. Takabuti's father, called Nespare, was a priest of the god Amun and her mother was called Tasenirit. Modern research dates Takabuti's coffin to approximately 660BC, at the end of the Twenty-Fifty Dynasty.

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 Takabuti was a married woman who reached an age of between twenty and thirty years. She lived in the Egyptian city of Thebes at the end of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt. Her mummified body and mummy case are in the Ulster Museum, Belfast.[1] The coffin was opened and the mummy unrolled on 27 January 1835 in Belfast Natural History Society’s museum at College Square North. Edward Hincks, a leading Egyptologist from Ireland was present and deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs which revealed that she was mistress of a great house. Her mother’s name was Taseniric and her father was a priest of Amun. She was buried in a cemetery west of Thebes.

After the Napoleonic Wars there was a brisk trade in Egyptian mummies. Takabuti was purchased in 1834 by Thomas Greg of Ballymenoch House, Holywood, Co. Down. At that time the unwrapping of a mummy was of considerable scientific interest (as well as curiosity) and later studies revealed beetles later identified as N. mumiarum Hope, 1834, Dermestes maculatus DeGeer, 1774 (as Dermestes vulpinus) and Dermestes frischi Kugelann, 1792 (as Dermestes pollinctus Hope, 1834). The painted coffin was itself of considerable interest and the wrappings of fine linen were given much attention in the town that was the commercial centre of the Irish linen industry. One hundred and seventy years later Takabuti remains a popular attraction for visitors, young and old
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 Takabuti was a married woman who reached an age of between twenty and thirty years. She lived in the Egyptian city of Thebes at the end of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt. Her mummified body and mummy case are in the Ulster Museum, Belfast.[1] The coffin was opened and the mummy unrolled on 27 January 1835 in Belfast Natural History Society’s museum at College Square North. Edward Hincks, a leading Egyptologist from Ireland was present and deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs which revealed that she was mistress of a great house. Her mother’s name was Taseniric and her father was a priest of Amun. She was buried in a cemetery west of Thebes.

After the Napoleonic Wars there was a brisk trade in Egyptian mummies. Takabuti was purchased in 1834 by Thomas Greg of Ballymenoch House, Holywood, Co. Down. At that time the unwrapping of a mummy was of considerable scientific interest (as well as curiosity) and later studies revealed beetles later identified as N. mumiarum Hope, 1834, Dermestes maculatus DeGeer, 1774 (as Dermestes vulpinus) and Dermestes frischi Kugelann, 1792 (as Dermestes pollinctus Hope, 1834). The painted coffin was itself of considerable interest and the wrappings of fine linen were given much attention in the town that was the commercial centre of the Irish linen industry. One hundred and seventy years later Takabuti remains a popular attraction for visitors, young and old.

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 The mummy returns

She's back.
The Egyptian mummy - a source of fascination for children since she came to Belfast in 1834 - had been in storage as the Ulster Museum went through a major refurbishment over a period of nearly three years.
But she has returned to her home at the corner of Belfast's Botanic Park and will be ready to receive visitors when the new-look museum opens in October.
The mummy has always been a major draw for the museum.
But curators dismissed as "urban myth" a popular story that the mummy once contracted a bad case of nits from the children of Belfast and ended up under glass to protect herself.
"She dates from 660 BC and was the daughter of a priest living in Thebes in the Valley of the Kings," said Dr Jim McGreevy, head curator at National Museums Northern Ireland.
"She was a lady of some standing. Her grave goods indicate that she was important and her family was important at that time in ancient Egypt," he said.
"She has been a source of wonder and awe in Belfast too."
He said there were no curses attached to this particular mummy and the museum staff had "nothing but respect" for her.
In the new-look museum, visitors will be able to see a facial reconstruction of Takabuti to get an idea of what she really looked like.
Given the Hollywood fascination with mummies and museums - The Mummy and A Night at the Museum were big hits - the museum is expecting thousands of visitors when it reopens in October.
"We have been extremely busy over the past few months and we are looking forward to the reopening," said Dr McGreevy.
"We are on the last legs of the work and are anticipating considerably bigger numbers
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8123849.stm