Mummy-Case with Hieroglyphic Inscription

Mummy-Case with Hieroglyphic Inscription

Mummy case, cartonnage and gesso with pigment, Egyptian 22nd Dynasty, four fragments from two cartonnage mummy cases. On the mian two pieces (L.16.026 A & B), two distinct areas of glyphs. Area (1) consitsts of three vertical glyphs. Areas (2) - (4) consist of three perpendicular registers of text, read veritically from left to right.

(1) jmAxjj xr m[///] (maybe Imsety?) (2) wsjr [nb nHH xnty jmntt] (3) wnn[nfr] [///] (4) wn[///]
(1) The revered one before [Imsety?] (2) Osiris, [lord of eternity, foremost of the West] (3) Wenenefer (4) ?

Transliteration and Translation provided by Dr M Pitkin and Dr H Strudwick, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

The two remaining pieces (L.16.026 C & D) appear for be from another mummy case but not enough remains to translate.

945 BC - 720 BC

Height: 90 mm
Width: 100 mm

C.001.020 A

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Acquired by Corporal John Walter Sinclair, Egypt, 1916

A Brisbane Private Collection

P.001

Mr James Donaldson