Mummy cartonnage based on cloth; woman, face and arms gilt, wreath of red flowers in right hand, double headed snake bracelet on both forearms, necklace and pectoral and earrings; right eye bronze eyelashes loose but present. Broken, fragments missing. One fragment showing curls and eyelid ?(marked B in pencil) difficult to place.
Collection Place
Hawara
Publications
- Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Funeral Furniture of Egypt; Stone and Metal Vases, cf p.19, 356 - Trope, Betsy Teasley, Excavating Egypt. Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, p.100 - Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Roman Portraits and Memphis (IV), pl. X, 2 - Trope, Betsy Teasley, Excavating Egypt. Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
height: 50 cms Paper, Petrie's writing"Below this add one head, the finest, to be joined. Back of it marked N". length: cms width: 40 cms diameter: cms depth: cms thickness: cms