Takabuti

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 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
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