Mummy of Queen Meryet-Amun at Thebes. Photographs by Harry Burton

Mummy of Queen Meryet-Amun at Thebes. Photographs by Harry Burton

cat mummy

cat mummy

Priests oversaw the rituals, mummifications, funerals, and burials of sacred temple animals. By the mid-1st millennium BC, people were encouraged to pay for the mummification as a sacred offering to the related deity. A cat mummy would be offered to a feline deity, such as Bastet. This was a lucrative business, and "false" mummies were sometimes created to meet the demand. Actually, this is one of those: X-rays show that there is nothing inside the wrappings.

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Mummy of Artemidora

Mummy of Artemidora
Period:Roman PeriodDate:A.D. 90–100Geography:From Egypt, Middle Egypt, Meir (Mir)Medium:Human remains, linen, mummification material, painted, plastered, and gilded cartonnageDimensions:L. 196 cm (77 3/16 in); W. 53 cm (20 7/8 in)Credit Line:Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1911
The mask portrays a young woman lying flat as if upon her bier. Her hair is arranged in tiers of snail curls over her forehead. Alongside her face flows a black Egyptian-style wig, the ...long locks bound with narrow rings of gold in pharaonic fashion. She wears a dark red tunic with black clavi (stripes) edged in gold. The jewelry includes snake bracelets and gold ball earrings. At the back of the head is support decorated with imagery signifying rebirth, including a dark blue glass scarab beetle. Attached to the wrappings of the mummy are gold appliqué figures of Osiris, Isis and Nephthys.

On the bottom of the foot is an image of Anubis bearing the disk of the moon. Set in a tabula ansata above this is a conventional Greek funerary inscription, "Artemidora, daughter of Harpokras, died untimely, aged 27. Farewell." C.A.T. scans of the mummy likewise suggest an age of 25 to 30
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Mummy of Nesiamun

Mummy of Nesiamun

Period:Late PeriodDynasty:Dynasty 25–26Date:ca. 712–525 B.C.Geography:From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Priests' Cemetery, Tomb MMA 200s, MMA excavations, 1922–23Medium:Human remains, linen, mummification material

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Mummy child

Object Number: E16234
Current Location: In the Artifact Lab
Culture: Roman
Provenience: Egypt
Section: Egyptian

Materials: Human Remains
Linen

Mummy Child




Mummy of a child. The inscription on the mummy’s wrapping gives her name and reads, “Tanwa, daughter of Hermidoros”. The same inscription appears in two different languages, Demotic, a highly cursive Egyptian script, and Greek. Tanwa was about five years old when she died. Her mummy was CT-scanned in 2009 and researchers are currently analyzing the results.

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