Mummy
Mummy

Currently not on view

Mummy

Egyptian
Ptolemaic Period, ca. 304–30 BCE
y1947-337 a-b

Information

Title
Mummy
Credit Line
Gift of Frederic C. Penfield in 1908
Object Number
y1947-337 a-b
Inscription
The Osiris (deceased) Wesir-wer, justified (deceased).
Culture
Egyptian (ancient)
Period
Ptolemaic
Type
mummy cases, funerary objects
Materials
wood, gesso, linen (material)
Subject
snakes, mummification, suns, jackals, disks, men, circles (plane figures), figures (representations)

Acquired in Egypt in the late 1800s; given by Frederic C. Penfield to the Old Collection at Guyot Hall in 1908; entered into the Museum in 1947

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