An Egyptian Polychrome Cartonnage Mummy Case, 3rd Intermediate Period, 22nd/24th Dynasty, 944-716 B.C.

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An Egyptian Polychrome Cartonnage Mummy Case

3rd Intermediate Period, 22nd/24th Dynasty, 944-716 B.C.

wearing a broad beaded collar with winged ram-headed scarab below, braided beard, and tripartite wig with diadem, beaded netting on the back, the body elaborately decorated with scenes including the deceased accompanied by deities, winged goddesses flanking a djed-pillar, jackal-headed Anubis attending the mummy of the deceased and flanked seated goddesses, and the winged goddess Nut kneeling and holding Maat feathers, serpents below, the column of inscription containing an offering formula, and including the name of Osiris and of the deceased, Dunauy-nakht.

178 by 39 cm

Galerie Athena, Brussels
acquired from the above on September 11th, 1978

For other polychrome cartonnage mummy cases close in date to the present example compare J.H. Taylor and N.Strudwick, Mummies, Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Treasures from The British Museum, 2005, pp. 56-59, and S. D’Auria, P. Lacovara, and C,H.Roehrig, Mummies & Magic, The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Boston, 1988, cat. 122, pp.170-171; for cartonnage and its employment for funerary equipment see pp. 166-167.