Mummy-Case
Title
Mummy-Case
Description
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.
(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.
Date
945 BC - 720 BC
Format
Height: 45 mm
Width: 55 mm
Width: 55 mm
Type
Identifier
C.001.021 A
Coverage
License
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License
Medium
Provenance
Acquired by Corporal John Walter Sinclair, Egypt, 1916
Rights Holder
A Brisbane Private Collection
Relation
P.001
Contributor
Mr James Donaldson
Files
Collection
Citation
Third Intermediate period (Egyptian), “Mummy-Case,” First World War Antiquities, accessed April 30, 2024, https://ww1antiquities.omeka.net/items/show/25.
Item Relations
Item: Corporal John Walter Sinclair | frbr:ownerOf | This Item |
Comments